Senior Hamas official Rawhi Mushtaha, the de facto prime minister of the Gaza Strip, was killed in an Israeli strike several months ago, the IDF and Shin Bet announce, APA reports citing Times of Israel.
According to the military and Shin Bet, Mushtaha was killed in a strike in the Gaza Strip three months ago, along with Hamas officials Sameh al-Siraj, who held the security portfolio in Hamas’s political bureau, and Sami Odeh, the head of Hamas’s “general security mechanism.”
The strike, carried out by fighter jets, targeted the officials while they were hiding in a tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip.
Hamas has not confirmed the deaths of the senior officials.