By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-03 17:00:29 | Updated at 2024-10-03 19:26:54
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Israeli military says it killed senior Hamas leader and ‘right-hand man’ to Oct. 7 mastermind in Gaza strike
NY Post ^ | 10/03/24 | Emily Crane
Posted on 10/03/2024 9:55:53 AM PDT by Libloather
Gaza’s de facto prime minister Rawhi Mushtaha — the “right-hand man” of Hamas terror leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar — was killed in an airstrike in Gaza, Israel said Thursday.
Rawhi Mushtaha, the head of Hamas’ government in Gaza, was one of three of the terror group’s leaders confirmed dead in an earlier missile strike on an underground compound in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced for the first time Thursday.
“Mushtaha was considered to be the most senior figure in the Hamas political bureau in the Gaza Strip, and during the war maintained civil control of the Hamas regime, while simultaneously engaging in terror activity against Israel,” the military said.
He was also “one of Hamas’ most senior operatives, and had a direct impact on decisions relating to Hamas’ force deployment,” according to the IDF.
“Mushtaha was Sinwar’s right-hand man and one of his closest associates,” the military said of the Oct. 7 slaughter that triggered the war.
Mushtaha and Sinwar once served a prison sentence together in an Israeli jail, the Times of Israel reported. Sinwar is still believed to be alive and in hiding in Gaza.
Mushtaha and the two other senior Hamas officials were killed some three months ago in a targeted strike on a fortified compound in northern Gaza that served as a command and control center, the IDF said.
Those confirmed killed alongside Mushtaha in the earlier attack were Sameh Al-Saraj, a senior security official, and Sami Odeh, Hamas’ general security service commander, the military said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; mastermind
That's a shame. On the bright side, the DNC's Hamas wing has been quieter on college campuses only because there's no one left to support.
1 posted on 10/03/2024 9:55:53 AM PDT by Libloather
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