Israel claims killing ‘Hamas’ naval commander’

The Israeli regime’s military has claimed killing the commander of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ naval unit in Gaza City amid the regime’s now-seven-month-old genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

“Mohammed Ahmed Ali” was killed during an airstrike in Gaza City "in the past day," the military said in a statement on Wednesday.

It added that "during the war, Ali was responsible for attacks” on the occupied territories and the Israeli military’s “ground troops operating in the Gaza Strip," including in central Gaza over the past week.

Hamas is yet to pass any comments on Ali’s likely death.

Ali has been described as a member of Hamas’ armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades.

Al-Qassam and al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Hamas’ fellow Gaza-based resistance group, the Islamic Jihad, have been defending the territory in the face of the war.

The Israeli statement came four days after the brigades claimed responsibility for firing a barrage of projectiles against an Israeli military position on Gaza’s southern border with the occupied territories. Over a dozen of the regime's troops were killed and wounded during the resistance operation.

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The Israeli military did not say whether it believed that Ali had been involved in planning or executing the operation.

The Israeli regime began the war on October 7, following a retaliatory operation by Gaza’s resistance fighters that came in response to the regime’s escalated aggression against Palestinians across the coastal sliver and the occupied West Bank.

At least 34,844 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in the brutal military onslaught so far.

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