The IDF announced it killed Sharif al-Hasanat earlier today (Saturday) in the Deir al-Balah area. Al-Hasanat was a terrorist ‘company commander’ in the Deir al-Balah Battalion of Hamas’s military wing. Throughout the war, he led efforts to rebuild Hamas’s underground tunnel infrastructure.
In recent weeks, the IDF said, he continued advancing terror plots against Israeli forces and Israeli civilians. The military added that al-Hasanat posed an immediate threat to Israeli forces and was therefore eliminated. An IDF spokesperson said: “Our forces are deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement, and will continue to act to remove any threat.”