Marwan Issa and Fayq al Mabhouh were killed in recent days in different operations carried out by the Israeli army in Gaza.
The White House announced that Israel killed last week Marwan Issanumber three of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, after it was the target of an air attack in Gaza.
“Marwan Issa died in an Israeli operation last week“, reported the US national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, at a press conference. In addition, he confirmed that Israel has “destroyed a significant number of Hamas battalions and killed thousands of Hamas fighters, including senior managers“.
“The rest of the top leaders are hidden, probably deep in Hamas’s tunnel network and their time will also come” Sullivan commented. The Israeli military announced that Issa had been the target of an airstrike on one of the underground complexes in central Gaza. He is accused of being one of the planners of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel .
Marwan Issa was Mohamed Deif’s deputy, Hamas leader and the Ezedine al Qasam Brigades, as reported a few days ago Rear Admiral Daniel HagariIsrael’s military spokesman.
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Israel confirmed that it killed Fayq al Mabhouh, another senior Hamas commander
Al Mabhouh, A senior commander of the Gaza police and brother of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh (one of the founders of the armed wing of Hamas), was killed this Monday, as confirmed by the Israeli army. The fighting took place around the largest hospital in Gaza, which had already been assaulted by Israel on November 15.
After the bombings, hundreds of Palestinians, mostly women, the elderly and children, could be seen fleeing their homes amid rubble and black smoke. Israeli army accuses Hamas of using hospitals as command centers. “Gaza was the largest open-air prison before the war. Now it is the largest open-air cemetery“, declared the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell.
Source: Ambito
