Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 1st April. Israel Defense Forces on Sunday have said that it had killed 4 senior Hamas leaders during the operations at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital where several men belonged to the terror outfit were holed up.
IDF stated the two have been identified as senior Hamas operatives, Fadi Dweik and Zakaria Najib.
According to the IDF, the deceased have been identified as Raad Thabet is the head of the Hamas’s recruitment and supply acquisition and Mahmoud Khalil Zakzuk, as per IDF statement, is the deputy commander of Hamas rocket unit in Gaza City.
IDF said that Dweik was a senior intelligence officer of the Hamas and was involved in the 2002 shooting incident at West Bank that led to the killing of four Israeli citizens.
IDF said Zakaria Najib, the was a senior operative in Hamas’s West Bank headquarters and was involved in executing and planning attacks on Israel in the West Bank.
IDF in a statement that exchange of fire was continuing in Al-Shifa hospital premises and that its troops have killed around 200 Hamas operatives inside the hospital.
It said that the IDF killed several Hamas gunmen on Saturday in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis area.
The army said that the Israel Air Force had also carried out aerial attacks in al-Amal and al-Quarara region mainly to support the ground invasion of the IDF.
Sources in Israel Defence Ministry quoted in news media that the IDF was conducting combing operations in Al-Shifa and Al-Nasser hospitals where several Hamas operatives are holed up even now.
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