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Three Hamas leaders killed months ago, IDF says

In a statement, the IDF said Rawhi Mushtaha was “one of Hamas’s most senior operatives and had a direct impact on decisions relating to Hamas’s force deployment”.

The deaths announced on Thursday add to the list of prominent Hamas leaders killed in the last year, since Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October and the ensuing war in Gaza.

In August, the Israeli military said it shot dead Hamas’s leader Wissam Khazem, during a major operation in the West Bank.

Separately, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an explosion in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in July. Iran blamed the incident on Israel, but Israeli officials did not claim it.

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) later said that Iran’s missile attack on Israel on Tuesday was retaliation for what it called the “violation of Iran’s sovereignty and the martyrdom” of Haniyeh.


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