2024-07-16 11:56:49
The Palestinian Hamas movement has ceased all contacts with the leaders of the movement’s units located in the Gaza Strip after an attack by Israeli forces in the Al-Mawasi area near the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the enclave, Day.Az reports, citing TASS.
According to his sources, Hamas stopped all forms of communication with its representatives in the Strip after Israel’s strike on the Al-Mawasi area, which killed at least 70 people, including the leader of the movement’s military wing in Khan Yunis, Rafia Salama. As Al Hadath pointed out, the main goal of Israel’s attack on Al-Mawasi was to eliminate the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed al-Deif.
The channel’s sources claim that Hamas “was warned about the planned action to eliminate some of its leaders in Gaza,” which is why al-Deif and some other leaders of the movement in the strip were constantly changing their locations. In addition, according to the same sources, over the past few weeks Israel has arrested a number of second- and third-tier Hamas leaders, from whom it could have obtained more detailed information about the movements of Hamas leaders in Gaza.
According to the information available at the moment, al-Deif was seriously injured in the bombing near Khan Yunis. In addition, several radicals who were part of the group providing personal security for the leader of the military wing of Hamas were killed in the Israeli attack.
At the same time, as the representative of the movement stated, “the victims of the strike [израильской армии] “Only civilians were killed near Khan Yunis.” According to the official Hamas statement, Israel’s claims that the strike on the Al-Mawasi area was aimed at eliminating the leaders of the militant wing of the radical movement are a lie, a justification for the actions of Israeli forces and an attempt to hide the scale of the tragedy near Khan Yunis.