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  "path": "/news/2003457/israel-claims-it-killed-new-hamas-armed-wing-chief-in-gaza-strike",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T06:49:56.000Z",
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    "World",
    "Haddad was killed",
    "Yahya Sinwar",
    "Mohammed Deif",
    "Hassan Nasrallah"
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  "textContent": "Israel said on Wednesday it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, in a strike the day before, after killing his predecessor in a similar attack this month.\n\nIsraeli Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed the “commander of the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist organisation in Gaza was eliminated yesterday”.\n\nHamas has not yet commented.\n\n“In the Prime Minister’s name and in my own, congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet on the brilliant execution,” Katz claimed in a post on X.\n\n“We committed ourselves to eliminating everyone who led the October 7 massacre, and that is what we will do: they are all marked for death, wherever they may be.”\n\nAfter announcing the strike on Tuesday, Katz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a joint statement that Odeh had “served as head of Hamas intelligence during the October 7 massacre and was appointed approximately one week ago as successor to Ezzedine al-Haddad”.\n\nHaddad was killed by an Israeli strike on May 15.\n\n“Odeh was responsible for the murder, abduction and injury of numerous Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” Katz and Netanyahu said.\n\nIn the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, retaliation against Israel, Netanyahu pledged to target and eliminate the Hamas leaders behind it.\n\nIsrael’s invasion of Gaza has killed at least 72,803 people, according to the territory’s health ministry.\n\nIsrael has previously killed Hamas’s former political chief Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, its Gaza chief who was widely regarded as the mastermind of the October 7 attack.\n\nIt also killed Mohammed Deif, the longtime commander of Hamas’s armed wing, known as the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as Mohammed Sinwar, who succeeded his brother Yahya Sinwar, as Gaza chief.\n\nIsraeli strikes have also targeted Hamas operatives in Lebanon and senior Iran-backed Hezbollah commanders allied with the group, including former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.",
  "title": "Israel claims it killed new Hamas armed wing chief in Gaza strike"
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