Israel said on Friday that its strikes in the Gaza Strip had targeted Haddad, whom it says is the leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas’ armed wing.
Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli military and intelligence services have launched a wide-ranging operation targeting the group’s senior political leaders and militant commanders in Gaza and across the region.
“The Israel Defense Forces carried out an attack in Gaza targeting top terrorist Ezzeddine Haddad, the commander of Hamas’s military wing and one of the main architects of the October 7 massacre,” the Defense Minister’s Office said in a statement.
The report did not say whether he had been killed.
The Gaza Civil Defense Agency, a relief agency affiliated with Hamas, said Israeli warplanes “bombed” a residential building in the Lamar area of Gaza City, killing one person and injuring about 20 others.
The agency did not reveal the identity of the victim.
Israeli television broadcast footage of a building on fire in Gaza, saying this was the location where Haddad was attacked.
“Hadad was responsible for the murder, kidnapping and injury of thousands of Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” the defense minister’s office said.
“He brutally imprisoned our hostages, planned terrorist attacks against our forces, and refused to implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s agreement to disarm Hamas and demilitarize the Gaza Strip.”
Militants from the Hamas armed wing led the October 7 attack, which killed 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.
Militants also kidnapped 251 hostages to Gaza.
Israel’s retaliatory military operations in Gaza have killed more than 72,700 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which is under the jurisdiction of Hamas.
The United Nations considers these figures reliable.
Over the course of the war, Israel claimed responsibility for the assassinations of several Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, widely believed to be the mastermind of the October 7 attack.
It also killed Mohammed Deif, a longtime commander of Hamas’s armed forces and another key architect of the attack.
Israeli strikes have also targeted Hamas operatives in Lebanon and senior Hezbollah commanders allied to the group, including former Hezbollah chairman Hassan Nasrallah.
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