A key figure in the Hamas-run Gazan government has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Hamas said that Ehab al-Ghussein, the Deputy Minister of Labor, was among four people killed by an Israeli airstrike on the Holy Family School in Gaza City.
Al-Ghussein was 45 and had been the Deputy Minister of Labor in Gaza since 2020, as well as the Head of the Emergency Committee for the Civil Service of the Northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has said it carried out strikes in the area, saying it targeted "a complex inside of which terrorists were operating and hiding in the area of a school building in Gaza City."Israeli soldiers gather in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. It added that "numerous steps were taken in order to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise aerial surveillance and additional intelligence.
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