Five Hamas officials confirmed killed in overnight strikespublished at 16:32 Greenwich Mean Time
Rushdi Abualouf
Gaza correspondent
We've reported some of these names already, but the key Hamas figures now confirmed killed in the overnight Israeli airstrikes are as follows:
- Yasser Harb, member of Hamas’ political bureau, along with his family
- Engineer Issam Al-Da’alis, Hamas government head and member of the political bureau
- Major General Mahmoud Abu Watfa, deputy interior minister in Gaza and the highest-ranking Hamas security official
- Brigadier General Bahjat Abu Sultan, head of Hamas’ Internal Security Agency, the group’s most powerful security apparatus
- Abu Omar Al-Hattah, Deputy Minister of Justice in Gaza
Meanwhile, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) - an allied armed group of Hamas - also confirmed the death of its spokesman Naji Abu Seif, otherwise known as Abu Hamza.