
CAIRO: A senior Hamas official told Reuters on Saturday that the chief of the group's military wing had died, a day after Israel said that it had carried out airstrikes targeting him.
Earlier, witnesses in Gaza City said that mosques had announced Izz al-Din al-Haddad's "martyrdom". He is the most senior Hamas official killed by Israel since an October U.S.-backed ceasefire deal that was meant to halt fighting in Gaza.