Israel kills one of Hamas' last senior leaders during airstrike in Gaza: Izz al-Din Kassab becomes latest top figure in terror group to be wiped out by IDF

Israel has killed 1 of the past senior Hamas leaders remaining successful the Gaza strip, an authoritative announced connected Friday evening.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said successful a connection that Izz al-Din Kassab, a subordinate of Hamas' governmental bureau had been 'eliminated' during an airstrike in Khan Younis.

According to the IDF, Kassab was liable for nationalist relations wrong the organisation and oversaw the 'coordination and transportation betwixt Hamas and different violent organisations successful Gaza'. 

He was additionally liable for Hamas' strategical and subject relations with different factions successful Gaza. 

The IDF said Kassab 'held the authorization to nonstop the execution of violent attacks against the State of Israel.'

According to Reuters, Hamas mourned the decease of the elder person successful a statement, adding that helium was killed alongside his assistant, Ayman Ayesh, successful the strike.

On Friday night, the IDF released melodramatic footage of the infinitesimal a motortruck carrying Kassab and Ayesh was struck with precision arsenic it travelled on a ungraded roadworthy successful the metropolis of Khan Younis, which present lies mostly successful ruins aft much than a twelvemonth of subject operations.

Kassab's decease comes conscionable weeks aft Israel assassinated Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was wide considered to beryllium the main designer of the October 7 attacks which saw 1,200 radical killed and 250 taken hostage by terrorists. 

After confirming his death, the IDF released the past moments Sinwar was live arsenic filmed by a drone that entered the shelled-out gathering wherever helium was hiding. 

Sitting connected a dust-laden chair, his caput covered successful a scarf to fell his identity, Sinwar tin beryllium seen peeking done the tiny spread successful the wrapping encasing his look to look straight astatine the drone, with his close manus wounded by bullets.

HIs past enactment was to propulsion a instrumentality astatine the instrumentality conscionable seconds earlier helium was assassinated by Israeli forces successful Gaza.

In September, Israel assassinated Hezbollah main Hassan Nasrallah during a monolithic onslaught against the violent radical successful Lebanon.

A slew of different Iran-backed militant commanders person besides been killed successful caller months.

Israel said earlier this twelvemonth that it had killed Mohammed Deif, Hamas's subject chief, successful a strike, though the Palestinian radical has not confirmed it.

Deif stood accused of moving with Sinwar to program the October 7 attack.

Kassab's assassination contiguous comes successful the aftermath of a vow made by Israel to destruct Hamas' full elder leadership.