RIYADH: Israeli media claimed an airstrike has killed the spokesman of Hamas’ armed wing, Abu Obeida.

Israeli reports said Saturday’s strike targeted a key Hamas operative, with some senior Israeli officials claiming it was Abu Obeida.

A Palestinian source told Al Arabiya on Sunday that the strike, reportedly on Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, hit an apartment where Abu Obeida was staying.

All residents of that apartment were also killed in the strike, the source said.

The source added that members of Abu Obeida’s family and Hamas’s armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, “confirmed his death after examining the body.”