Palestinians and emergency personnel carry a white body bag of a victim at Al-Shifa Hospital targeted by an Israeli strike on a car in Gaza City, on December 13, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Israel said it killed the head of weapons production in Hamas's military wing in a strike in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, December 13.
The civil defense agency and medical sources in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory told AFP an Israeli strike killed five people in the Tel al-Hawa district, southwest of Gaza City.
When contacted by AFP earlier on Saturday, the army did not say whether the strike reported in Tel al-Hawa was the same as the one mentioned in an army statement before the announcement that it had killed Hamas's Raad Saad.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement that "in response to the detonation of a Hamas explosive device that wounded our forces today in the Yellow Area of the Gaza Strip... [they] instructed the elimination of the terrorist Raad Saad."
