Muhammad Deif (R) – IDF photo
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Thursday morning that Hamas terrorist leader Muhammad Deif was killed almost three weeks ago in an air strike. Since the attack that killed Deif there had been conflicting reports as to whether or not he survived it.
The IDF stated that in a joint operation with Israel’s anti-terror service the Shin Bet (General Security Service, on July 13, 2024, Israel Air Force fighter jets attacked an area in Khan Yunis in Gaza where Muhammad Deif was located at the time. Now, after an intelligence review that lasted more than two weeks, the IDF said that it has confirmed that the attack killed Muhammad Deif, the commander of the military arm and the number two man in the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza, which planned and carried out the October 7, 2023 murderous massacre in which more than 1,200 innocent people, including children and entire families, many of whom were burned alive.
The Air Force planes that killed Muhammad Deif targeted a compound where, according to what the IDF called “accurate intelligence” from its Amman intelligence division and the Shin Bet, Deif was hiding. Also killed in the attack was Rafe Salama, the commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade. Along with them, other terrorists were also eliminated.
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In recent years, Deif planned and carried out many terrorist plots against the State of Israel. Muhammad Deif worked closely with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and during the war he managed the terrorist activities of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, issuing orders and instructions to the senior military wing of the organization.
Muhammad Deif joined the terrorist organization Hamas during the first intifada, planned and directed many attacks, and contributed to the strengthening of the organization in Judea and Samaria and suicide attacks in Israel’s homeland.
This news comes just two days after the IDF confirmed that in an air strike it killed Fuad Shukar – also known as ” al-Hajj Mohsin ” – Hezbollah’s most senior terrorist commander in an air strike in Beirut. Fuad Shukar was responsible for the rocket attack on Saturday on the Israeli-Druze town Majdal Shams in which ten children and two teens were killed.
And Wednesday morning Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas’ terror organization’s political leader, who lived in hiding in Qatar, was killed in what the Iranian government called a missile strike as he attended the swearing-in ceremony for Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian Wednesday morning. Israel, however, has not claimed responsibility for that attack.
Now Israelis are bracing for an escalation in the ongoing war with both Hamas and Hezbollah – with support from their Iranian backers – after the killings of Muhammad Deif, Fuad Shukar and Ismail Haniyeh.
