‘Last week the Israel killed the Hamas group’s third-in-command’, said the White House on Monday. Previously Israel said he had been targeted in Gaza airstrike but did not confirm his death.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said as he gave the information about a call between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jake Sullivan said, ‘Hamas’s number three Marwan Issa was killed in an Israeli operation last week’.
‘Israel had also broken a significant number of Hamas battalions, killed 1000s of Hamas fighters including senior commanders’, said Sullivan.
He added, ‘The rest of the top leaders are in hiding, likely in the Hamas tunnel network, and justice will come for them too’.
On March 11, Israel’s military said that an air strike on an underground compound in central Gaza on March 9-10 had targeted Issa, describing him as one of the planners of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
Israel’s military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, ‘Issa was a deputy of Mohammed Deif, who heads Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades’.
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