Israel on Thursday said that it killed two top Hamas officials, including head of Hamas’s internal security agency, in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces “in recent days… struck and eliminated the terrorist Rashid Jahjouh, head of the Hamas General Security Service, who assumed his position after the elimination of his predecessor, Sami Oudeh, in July 2024,” AFP quoted military spokesman Avichay Adraee as saying in a post on X.
According to a Times of Israel report, the IDF identified the another official as Amin Eslaiah, the head of the security mechanism in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
The security mechanism, according to the military, is a covert Hamas unit responsible for identifying “collaborators” with Israel, providing protection for high-ranking Hamas officials and assets both in Gaza and beyond, and suppressing dissent against Hamas’s authority.
Moreover, the mechanism is tasked with gathering intelligence for top Hamas leaders to inform their decision-making, added the IDF.
Jahjouh, as part of his role, was also responsible for Hamas’s internal propaganda.
Separately, the IDF said that a strike killed a prominent Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative involved in smuggling weapons to the terror group.
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