Israel stated on Wednesday it had killed the brand new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, in a strike the day earlier than, after killing his predecessor in an identical assault this month.
Israeli Protection Minister Israel Katz claimed the “commander of the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza was eradicated yesterday”.
Hamas has not but commented.
“Within the Prime Minister’s title and in my very own, congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Guess on the good execution,” Katz claimed in a publish on X.
“We dedicated ourselves to eliminating everybody who led the October 7 bloodbath, and that’s what we are going to do: they’re all marked for dying, wherever they might be.”
After asserting the strike on Tuesday, Katz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a joint assertion that Odeh had “served as head of Hamas intelligence in the course of the October 7 bloodbath and was appointed roughly one week in the past as successor to Ezzedine al-Haddad”.
Haddad was killed by an Israeli strike on Could 15.
“Odeh was chargeable for the homicide, abduction and harm of quite a few Israeli civilians and IDF troopers,” Katz and Netanyahu stated.
Within the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, retaliation towards Israel, Netanyahu pledged to focus on and remove the Hamas leaders behind it.
Israel’s invasion of Gaza has killed not less than 72,803 individuals, in keeping with the territory’s well being ministry.
Israel has beforehand killed Hamas’s former political chief Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, its Gaza chief who was broadly thought to be the mastermind of the October 7 assault.
It additionally killed Mohammed Deif, the longtime commander of Hamas’s armed wing, referred to as the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, in addition to Mohammed Sinwar, who succeeded his brother Yahya Sinwar, as Gaza chief.
Israeli strikes have additionally focused Hamas operatives in Lebanon and senior Iran-backed Hezbollah commanders allied with the group, together with former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
