Israeli officials said the IDF had targeted the leader of Hamas’s military wing, Mohammed Deif, as Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 71 people had been killed.
A Palestinian woman laments what Palestinians say was an Israeli strike at a tent camp in the Mawasi area of the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. Israel’s military targeted the leader of Hamas’s military wing, Mohammed Deif, in the Mawasi area of southern Gaza on Saturday, according to Israeli officials, as Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 71 people had been killed in a “massacre.”
Deif, who was designated as a terrorist by the State Department in 2015, is considered one of the main architects of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Israeli officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the Israel Defense Forces had targeted “Mohammad Deif and Rafa Salama, the Commander of Hamas’ Khan Yunis Brigade,” describing them as “two of the masterminds of the October 7th Massacre.”The operation had a high toll on Gazans in the area, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
Israeli forces originally withdrew from the northern city in January but earlier this week the military warned residents to evacuate.that Israel was exploring possibility of using an electronic surveillance system along the border between Gaza and Egypt that would allow its troops to withdraw.
the Gaza Health Ministry said. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it saystensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some U.S. politiciansU.S.
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