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Jerusalem, August 2 (HS). Israel is trying to break the back of Hamas by attacking it one after the other. In this series, Israel on Thursday claimed to have killed 59-year-old Muhammad Daif, the head of Hamas' military wing in Gaza Strip for the second consecutive day. Earlier, Hamas' supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a missile attack in Iran's capital Tehran.
Muhammad Daif, along with Yahya Sinwar, had plotted the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 and played a key role in executing it. 1,200 Israelis were killed in that attack and after that Israel declared war in Gaza. So far, about 40 thousand Palestinians have been killed in this war.
The Israeli army said that Deif was killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis city of Gaza on July 13. On Wednesday, Hamas supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a missile attack in Iran's capital Tehran. Israel has not taken responsibility for this attack, but it is suspected.
Hamas has not yet commented on the killing of Muhammad Daif. Daif was the Hamas commander under whose supervision a network of underground tunnels was built in the Gaza Strip over the past 30 years and fighters were trained to make deadly bombs.
Israel had been looking for Muhammad Daif for decades for several incidents of attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. He was on Israel's hit list for decades. There were several attempts to kill Daif but he always escaped.
The Israeli military said the information was being made public once Deif's death was confirmed. Muhammad Deif was among more than 90 people killed in an airstrike on July 13 in Gaza's second-largest city, Khan Younis.
Daif's full name was Muhammad Diyab al-Masri and he was born in a refugee camp in Gaza, but after becoming a member of Hamas he spent much of his life in the tunnels.
On Tuesday, a day before Haniya's death, Israel killed Fuad Shukar, a senior commander of the armed organization Hezbollah, in Lebanon's capital Beirut. There is talk of another senior Hezbollah commander Abu Nimah Naser being killed on Wednesday. Iran-backed Hezbollah has been attacking Israel since October 8, 2023 in support of Hamas.