Israel’s army said on Thursday that it had killed the head of Hamas’s internal security agency in an aerial attack on the latest latest officer Gaza Strip in recent times.
Israel resumed its air campaign with a wave of deadly attacks in the early hours of Tuesday, breaking a relative calm, which prevails in the war-dilemma Palestinian region, as a ceasefire caught a ceasefire on 19 January.
Israeli’s army “recently … Hamas General Security Service, the head of the Hamas General Security Service, killed and abolished, who took his position after the abolition of his predecessor Sami Oddeh in July 2024,” Military spokesperson Avichana Adrai said on X.
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In Hamas-Run Gaza, the internal security agency has been tasked with “providing information to political leadership to fight espionage and support the decision and decision-making”, which is according to the Geneva Center for the security sector rule.
Adraee said that in a separate raid, Israeli’s armies had killed Ismail Abdel-al, “was considered a prominent member of the Islamic Jihad’s smuggling network”, which mentioned a Palestinian terrorist group, who fought with Hamas in Gaza.
The civil defense agency of the region said on Thursday that 504 people were killed so far in the new Israeli attack, including more than 190 children.
Hamas on Tuesday nominated the head of his government at Gaza Strip, Essem al-Dalis, and Mahmood Abu Watfa, Head of the Ministry of Internal, stated in a list of officials that this week was killed in a wave of Israeli attacks this week.
The Israeli army confirmed that he had killed Dalis, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, who became the head of his administration in Gaza in June 2021.
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