{"id":10505,"date":"2024-03-26T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/senior-hamas-military-leader-known-as-shadow-man-killed-in-strike-israel-says\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:47:06","slug":"senior-hamas-military-leader-known-as-shadow-man-killed-in-strike-israel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/senior-hamas-military-leader-known-as-shadow-man-killed-in-strike-israel-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Hamas military leader known as ‘shadow man’ killed in strike, Israel says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hamas’s deputy political commander, Marwan Issa, was “eliminated” in a military strike earlier this month, Israel has said.<\/p>\n

If the intelligence is correct, he would be the highest-ranking Hamas leader to have been killed in Gaza since the start of the current conflict between Israel and Hamas<\/a><\/strong> in October.<\/p>\n

Fighter jets struck an underground compound in central Gaza between 9 and 10 March.<\/p>\n

Another Hamas commander, Aziz Abu Tamaa, was believed to be with Issa.<\/p>\n

The Israel Defence Forces said it had confirmed preliminary reports.<\/p>\n

“We have checked all the intelligence,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.<\/p>\n

“Marwan Issa was eliminated in the strike we carried out around two weeks ago.”<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Hamas.<\/p>\n

Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said last week that Issa had died<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/strong>:
Who are the key leaders of Hamas?<\/a><\/strong>
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Issa was known as “shadow man” for his ability to evade Israeli forces and had reportedly been hiding underground.<\/p>\n

Born in 1965, he was thought to be one of those behind the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October.<\/p>\n

About 1,200 people were killed and hundreds more taken hostage.<\/p>\n

Others on Israel’s most-wanted list include Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’s military wing, and Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Both are believed to be in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Sinwar spent more than two decades in Israeli prisons before being released with more than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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