Mosques in northern Gaza on Saturday announced that the commander of Hamas’s military wing had died, a day after Israel’s military said it had targeted the armed wing chief in airstrikes.
Witnesses said mosques in Gaza City announced the “martyrdom” of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Reuters reported. There was no immediate comment from Hamas itself on the fate of the militant group’s military chief, and the Israeli military has not confirmed whether al-Haddad was killed in the strikes it carried out a day earlier.
The reported death, if confirmed by either side, would mark a significant operational and symbolic loss for Hamas in Gaza. Israel has targeted senior Hamas military figures repeatedly during the current campaign, with confirmations of deaths often coming days or weeks after the strikes due to communications disruption in the territory.
The announcement comes against a broader Middle East backdrop in which the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire was extended for a further 45 days under separate Pentagon-led security and State Department-led political tracks in Washington. Sri Lanka’s public-conscience activism on Gaza and the UN warning that 47 women and girls are killed daily in the territory remain the most-tracked humanitarian threads in our recent coverage.
Source: Ada Derana (Reuters).
