A senior Hamas official on Saturday confirmed that the commander of the group’s military wing, was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike.
Earlier, witnesses in Gaza City said that mosques had announced Izz al-Din al-Haddad's "martyrdom". He is the most senior Hamas official killed by Israel since an October U.S.-backed ceasefire deal that was meant to halt fighting in Gaza.
The Israeli army claimed on Saturday that it killed al-Haddad.
Al-Haddad was killed in an attack on Gaza City, the army said in a statement.
There was no official statement from Hamas on the matter as yet.
