Hamas confirms the killing of the leader of the Qassam Brigades in an Israeli attack Hamas news

Israel targeted Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the head of Hamas’s armed group in Gaza, in an attack that killed seven people.

Hamas has confirmed the killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the leader of the Palestinian army in Gaza, in an Israeli attack the previous day.

Hamas accused Israel of “the treacherous and cowardly killing” of al-Haddad, who led the army. Divide the Brigadesin his statement on Saturday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that the Israeli military had taken action the target is the execution al-Haddad, calling him “one of the builders” of the October 7, 2023 attack.

Hamas said al-Haddad was killed along with his wife, daughter, and other Palestinian civilians on Friday evening.

Israeli terrorists targeted the Remal area west of Gaza City. Three Palestinians have been killed in an attack on a civilian car, and four others have died in an attack on a building, medical officials said.

Three women and a child were among those killed, sources told Al Jazeera. Many other people were injured.

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al Khalili, reporting from Gaza on the attack that killed al-Haddad, said the protests caused “panic” in the area as many Palestinians were forced to flee the “massive fire” that destroyed the building.

Hamas said the killing of al-Haddad was the latest sign of Israel’s violation of the Gaza “ceasefire” agreement, as well as “extreme violence against civilians” in the group.

Such attacks reaffirm Israel’s “terrorist and fascist nature,” the group said.

“It shows his disregard for all international laws and conventions, and his failure to impose political and military realities that he was unable to achieve by force,” it added in its statement.

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement and its militia, the Mujahideen Brigades, also mourned al-Haddad’s funeral.

“We appreciate his great sacrifice and long-term struggle, and we remember his rich record of fighting against the Zionist enemy, fighting them until he was killed,” he said.

It added that “killing in terror” would not weaken the resolve of the opposition. “It cannot end this conflict, even with weapons and destruction that has lasted for more than two and a half years.”

Last December, Israel They killed a senior member of the Hamas movement Raed Saad, who was Haddad’s deputy, in the group that injured at least 25 people.

Since the so-called “ceasefire” began in October last year, the number of people killed in Israel has reached 870, and the number of injured has risen to 2,543, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Hospitals across Gaza received 13 bodies and 57 injured patients over the past 24 hours, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.