Middle East conflict
Military strike in Rafah: Israel kills high-ranking Hamas commander
Smoke over Rafah (archive image)
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Israel’s army said it killed Muhammad Abu Hasna in a fighter jet attack on the city of Rafah on Wednesday. The high-ranking Hamas commander was active in the military wing of the terrorist organization.
The Israeli army said it had killed an important commander of the Islamist Hamas on Wednesday Rafah was deliberately killed in the south of the Gaza Strip. Based on intelligence information, a fighter jet “precisely attacked and eliminated the terrorist in Hamas’ operational unit in the Rafah area,” the military said in a statement.
The killing would significantly damage Hamas’s operational capabilities in Rafah
Muhammad Abu Hasna was active in the military wing of the terrorist organization Hamas. He was also involved in “appropriating humanitarian aid supplies and distributing them to Hamas terrorists.” Hasna also coordinated the activities of various Hamas units.
He was also responsible for an operations center that passed on information about Israeli army positions to help with Hamas attacks. His targeted killing would significantly damage the operational capabilities of various Hamas units in Rafah, the statement said.
Israel is planning a military offensive in Rafah despite international warnings. In the city on the border with Egypt, it is estimated that 1.5 million Palestinians are currently seeking protection from the fighting in other areas of the Gaza Strip in a confined space and under miserable conditions. The war was triggered by a massacre in which terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups murdered around 1,200 people and kidnapped 250 others in Israel on October 7th.