Hamas confirmed the killing of one of its senior commanders. The POWs said a few hours ago that Samir Abu Younes was killed in an airstrike.
According to the military wing of Hamas, Samir Abu Younes, the new commander of the Rafah Brigade, was killed on Saturday in the Mausi area in the southern Gaza Strip.
The army stated that before the ground attack "steps were taken to reduce harm to civilians".
A Hamas statement described this ground attack as a "cowardly assassination".
Eyewitnesses in Gaza said that four rockets hit a tent in the Oasis camp in the Mawasi area, which houses hundreds of displaced people, and caused a fire.
A medical source in Nasser Biyaristan in Khanyounes said that three wounded and one body were transferred there.
Mahmoud Bassel, spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense, told AFP that the body of Samir Abu Younes was handed over to this organization. The army and the POW organization for internal security, Shinbat, defined Samir Abu Younes in a telegram as "a key figure among senior Hamas officials" who is "trying to restore the power of the battalions and the organization of assassins of Hamas."
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