The Israeli military said on Sunday (15 November) that it had struck a senior member of Hamas’s military wing. Palestinian sources confirmed that a Hamas commander had been killed in the southern Gaza Strip.
AFP reported that, according to Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip, Samir Abu Younis, a commander in Hamas’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was killed in an air strike.
In a joint statement issued early on Sunday, the Israeli military and domestic security agency Shin Bet said: “A short while ago, the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency carried out a precise strike on a senior terrorist in Hamas’s military wing.”
A security source later told AFP that Younis, commander of the Qassam Brigades’ Rafah Brigade, was killed in a strike on Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis.
Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that the agency had received the body of the 53-year-old Younis. He said two other people were wounded in the strike.
