{"id":115652,"date":"2026-05-15T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/115652\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:38:09","slug":"israel-says-it-targeted-head-of-hamas-armed-wing-in-latest-attack-on-gaza-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/115652\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says it targeted head of Hamas armed wing in latest attack on Gaza \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> said it \u200chad targeted the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hamas\/\">Hamas<\/a>\u2019 armed wing with a strike in \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaza-strip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaza-strip\/\">Gaza<\/a> on Friday, describing him as an architect of the October 7th, 2023, attacks \u200bthat precipitated Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel-hamas-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel-hamas-conflict\/\">two-year assault<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/palestine\/\">Palestinian<\/a> territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hamas did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the fate of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, \u200bwho became the militant group\u2019s military chief in the Gaza Strip after \u2060Israel\u2019s killing of commander Mohammad Sinwar in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Haddad is \u200cthe \u200cmost \u200bsenior Hamas official targeted with a strike by Israel since an October US-backed deal that \u2060was meant to halt \u200bfighting in Gaza. The attack \u200bcomes as Hamas has been tightening its grip in a \u200csliver of territory on Gaza\u2019s coast \u200bunder its control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a joint statement, prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/binyamin-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/binyamin-netanyahu\/\">Binyamin \u2060Netanyahu<\/a> and defence minister Israel \u2060Katz said \u200bHaddad \u201cwas responsible for the murder, abduction, and harm inflicted on thousands of Israeli civilians [and] soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The two leaders did not say whether they believed Haddad had been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Medics and witnesses in Gaza said an air strike had targeted an apartment in the Gaza City area of \u200cRimal, killing at \u2060least one person and wounding several others. The identity of the person killed was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A second \u200cIsraeli air strike soon after targeted a vehicle on a nearby street, the \u200bmedics and witnesses said. There were \u200bno immediate reports of casualties from the second strike. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel said it \u200chad targeted the head of Hamas\u2019 armed wing with a strike in \u200cGaza on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1022,2254,1411,37,3694,7182,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-115652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-binyamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-gaza-strip","10":"tag-hamas","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-defence-forces","13":"tag-israel-hamas-conflict","14":"tag-palestine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116580051731997563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}