CAIRO: Palestinian militant group Hamas’ Gaza chief Khalil Al-Hayya confirmed on Sunday the killing of the group’s senior commander Raed Saed in an Israeli strike a day earlier. It was the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since a Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect in October.

Four people were killed and multiple passers-by injured in the strike, an official from Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency told the BBC.

Israel claims to have killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza, escalating tensions amid ongoing ceasefire violations.