CAIRO, May 16 (Reuters) – Mosques in northern Gaza on Saturday announced that Hamas’ military wing commander had died, a day after Israel’s military said that it had targeted the armed wing chief in airstrikes.
Witnesses said that mosques in Gaza City had announced Izz al-Din al-Haddad’s “martyrdom”. There was no immediate comment from Hamas on the fate of the militant group’s military chief.
Israel has not said if he was killed in the air strikes.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Writing by Alexander Cornwell,Editing by Louise Heavens)
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