The Hamas military leader was killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on July 13, according to the Israeli military.
The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency on Thursday confirmed that the head of Hamas’s terror army, Mohammed Deif, was killed in a joint operation in the Khan Yunis area of southern Gaza on July 13.
“After an intelligence check, it can be confirmed that the attack killed Mohammed Deif, the commander of the military arm and number two in the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza, which planned and carried out the murderous massacre on Oct. 7,” the IDF said.
Deif and Rafa’a Salameh, the commander of the terror group’s Khan Younis Brigade, were targeted in a building above ground close to the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone and the city of Khan Yunis.
