IDF says Hamas commander who held hostages killed in strike; another senior Hamas figure killed in southern Gaza
The IDF said Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah Awad, a Hamas commander who held seven Israeli hostages in a Gaza City tunnel, was killed in a strike over the weekend. In southern Gaza the IDF and Shin Bet also said they killed Muhammad Abu Alwan, head of Hamas’s finance department.
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