Jerusalem has claimed that it has killed the Hamas terror commander behind the October 7th terror attacks in 2023 that saw over 1,200 people killed in Southern Israel and hundreds more taken captive. One of the key architects behind the deadliest series of terror attacks in the history of the Jewish state has been killed, the Times of Israel reported on Saturday. The Israel Defence Forces said that he was killed in a “precise strike” in Gaza City on Friday evening.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is quoted by the paper in announcing the killing of the head of Hamas’s armed terrorist wing, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, whom he said was central to the deadly attacks that sparked a war in Gaza. “This is a significant operational success by the IDF led by the Southern Command, the Intelligence Directorate, the Air Force and the Shin Bet,” Lt. Gen. Zamir said. “In every conversation I held with the hostages who returned, the name of the arch-terrorist, Izz al-Din al-Haddad — one of the main figures responsible for the October 7 massacre and the head of Hamas’s military wing — came up again and again,” he added.
