The official Broadcasting Corporation announced on Sunday morning the killing of the acting Chief of Staff of the Hamas movement, Marwan Issa, after he was exposed last week. A well-controlled raid carried out by the Israeli army Hamas has kept the news of his death secret until now, while the Israeli army has reported in reports that it is optimistic about the success of the mission.
According to the “This Morning” radio program in Reshet Bet, Hamas confirmed in closed conversations that the senior official was killed in an air force attack about a week ago, and remained buried under the rubble of the tunnel in which he was with the brigade commander of the organization’s central camp.
Informed Palestinian sources said that Issa, the senior leader, was killed in An attack in Nuseirat in the central Gaza StripWhile he was in one of the Hamas tunnels. According to the sources, Ghazi Abu Toma, commander of the Hamas Central Camp Brigade, was also killed as he was in the same tunnel.
Later on Sunday, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported from Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip that Deputy Muhammad Deif was indeed present in the area targeted by Israeli forces in an attack in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, which resulted in him being seriously injured, but his fate is unclear. Until now.
According to Ynet, the British newspaper “The Guardian” reported that “the encrypted communications systems for senior Hamas officials stopped working for 72 hours after the attack, as happened on previous occasions when senior Hamas officials were liquidated.”
An Israeli intelligence officer told the newspaper that the nature and accuracy of the operation indicate the success of Israeli intelligence in achieving a breakthrough at the level of people working within the ranks of Hamas, keeping up to date with the movements of senior leaders. He said: “In order to attack, Israel needed information about the place and time of his hiding, and ample room to… Time allows the government to give permission to the Israeli army to carry out the attack, as well as the vital information required related to denying or confirming the presence of any kidnappers near him as a human shield.
Issa is number three in the Hamas hierarchy, after Muhammad al-Deif and Yahya al-Sanwar.
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