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Hamas military chief killed in air strike, Israel says


Israel’s military says it has confirmed that Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif was killed in an air strike in the Gaza Strip last month.

Deif was targeted in a strike on a compound in the Khan Younis area on 13 July. Hamas is yet to confirm his death.

Israel says Deif was one of the figures responsible for the planning of the 7 October attacks in southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed.

Israel’s announcement comes after the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran, and senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut.



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