The US official stated that Israel additionally “damaged a major variety of Hamas battalions.”
Washington:
Israel killed the Hamas group’s third-in-command final week, the White Home stated Monday, after Israel beforehand stated he had been focused in a Gaza airstrike however didn’t affirm his loss of life.
“Hamas’s quantity three Marwan Issa was killed in an Israeli operation final week,” Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan stated as he gave a readout of a name between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sullivan stated Israel had additionally “damaged a major variety of Hamas battalions, killed 1000s of Hamas fighters together with senior commanders.”
“The remainder of the highest leaders are in hiding, seemingly deep within the Hamas tunnel community, and justice will come for them too,” he added.
Israel’s army stated on March 11 that an air strike on an underground compound in central Gaza on March 9-10 had focused Issa, describing him as one of many planners of Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel.
Issa was a deputy of Mohammed Deif, who heads Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Israel’s army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari stated on the time.
However Hagari stated then that it was unclear if Issa had been killed within the operation, including: “We’re nonetheless inspecting the outcomes of the strike, and last affirmation has but to be acquired.”
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