IDF Claims Hit Hamas Amid Gaza Safe Zone Strike Fury, Netanyahu Rival Backs “Strategic” Hostage Deal – News18

The IDF said the overnight airstrike on a designated “safe zone” in southern Gaza “targeted” three senior Hamas operatives. The Israeli military identified the “targets” as Samer Ismail Khader Abu Daqqa, Osama Tabash, and Ayman Mabhouh. Daqqa was the chief of Hamas’ aerial forces and Tabash headed the surveillance and targets branch in the group’s intelligence division, as per IDF. The military accused all three of being “directly involved in the October 7 massacre” and in other attacks on Israeli troops in Gaza. The IDF claimed to have taken steps to “mitigate harm” to civilians in the strike, including “lengthy intelligence gathering” in the hours before the attack.