The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that an airstrike in northern Gaza earlier today (Tuesday) killed Mohammed Marwan Mohammed Salem, head of military security for Hamas’s Central Jabaliya Battalion.
Credit: IDF Spokesperson
According to the IDF statement, several other Hamas military operatives were killed alongside him: Abd al-Malek Abu al-Jabeen, a Nukhba terrorist in the Central Jabaliya Battalion and head of interrogations in the Hamas police; Yamen Mohammed Gabriil Obeid, a terrorist operative in the Central Jabaliya Battalion; and Ghassan Akram Salama Daqas, a terrorist operative in the West Jabaliya Battalion and member of the Hamas police.
The IDF said the terrorists had recently gathered to advance and execute attack plans, and that the strike was carried out to eliminate the threat. The military added that IDF forces in the Southern Command are deployed across the area in accordance with the agreement, and will continue operating to remove any immediate threat.