Deif, the leader of Hamas’s armed wing, was believed by Israel to have been among the key architects of the Oct. 7 attacks.
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors after an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on July 13. Israel said it had killed Hamas commander Mohammed Deif in the strike, but the militant group rejected that claim. strikes on July 13 in southern Gaza had killed Mohammed Deif, the highest-ranking Hamas military commander to be slain by Israel during its war in Gaza.
Deif was believed by Israel to have been among the key architects of the attacks on Oct. 7, when Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 250 hostage. As the founder of Hamas’s armed wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, and its leader for more than two decades, Deif had long been on Israel’s kill list and survived at least seven assassination attempts, Israeli media reported.
Deif was a shadowy figure, rarely photographed or seen in public, but he helped oversee the construction of Gaza’s extensive tunnel network and was thought to direct day-to-day combat operations for Hamas.
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