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Israel confirmed on Thursday that it had killed Hamas’s military commander Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds of the October 7 attack, in an airstrike in Gaza last month.
Israel targeted Deif and other top official in the Palestinian militant group in a series of strikes on the outskirts of the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis three weeks ago, killing dozens of Palestinians.
The Israeli confirmation of his death comes amid soaring tensions in the region after the assassination this week of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader in Tehran, and a senior commander of Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant movement, in Beirut.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied carrying out the attack that killed Haniyeh. But it did claim responsibility for the strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut that killed Hizbollah’s Fuad Shukr on Tuesday night.
This is a developing story.