Key Takeaways
- The Israeli Army has claimed killing Mahmoud Hamdan, commander of Hamas’s Tel al-Sultan Battalion, in Rafah, Gaza Strip.
- Mahmoud Hamdan played a crucial role in planning the October 7 attack on Israel last year and other operations against Israeli forces in Rafah.
- The leadership chain of the battalion and dozens of others associated with it have been eliminated in the Israeli military operation.
Gaza: The Israeli Army said that it has killed Mahmoud Hamdan, commander of Hamas‘s Tel al-Sultan Battalion, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, media reports said on Wednesday.
Drone surveillance detected several Hamas cells, which were then attacked by the Israeli air force, and during the raid, Hamdan, together with three additional company commanders from the same battalion, was killed, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a statement on social media platform X.
Hamdan played a crucial role in planning the October 7 attack on Israel last year and other operations against Israeli forces in Rafah, he said.
Adraee announced that the leadership chain of the battalion and dozens of others associated with it have been eliminated.
There has been no immediate comment from Hamas on this matter.
In a separate statement, Adraee said fighter jets targeted a Hamas-affiliated group inside a command and control complex hidden in a building that was previously a mosque in the Al-Bureij area of central Gaza.
The complex was used for planning and executing attacks against Israeli forces, he said.
Meanwhile, Palestinian security and medical sources reported that Israeli warplanes had targeted the al-Farouk Mosque and the youth club in the Al-Bureij refugee camp.
The Israeli offensive has resulted in significant human losses, with 41,020 Palestinians killed and 94,925 others injured in the coastal enclave, as reported by Gaza-based health authorities on Tuesday.
