Israel’s army and Shin Bet intelligence agency claim they have killed two senior Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip, Said Abu Hasnan and Mustafa al-Mutawwak, Al Jazeera reports.
The statement published on Telegram in English on Tuesday said Abu Hasnan was a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba unit in the Deir el-Balah Brigade. It claimed he took part in the killing of civilians in the Kissufim kibbutz during the October 7 assault on southern Israel in 2023.
The announcement also claimed that al-Mutawwak was an operations officer in Hamas’s Jabalia Brigade who directed attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza.
The army further claimed that last Thursday, Ali Nidal Husni Sarafiti — identified as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — was killed in a separate strike in Gaza City.
According to Israeli authorities, Sarafiti previously served 13 years in prison between 2002 and 2015 for membership in the PFLP, training fighters, and planning a suicide attack. They claim that, in recent years, he resumed contact with fighters in the occupied West Bank and transferred millions of shekels to support attacks inside Israel.
