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    Hamas admits the death of Mohammed Deif to the Arab newspaper

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    Hamas sources acknowledged that he had died Mohammed Deifthe former head of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, the terrorist organization’s military wing, months after Israel confirmed his removal, the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Friday.

    The Arab source’s report stated that “the leadership of the terrorist organization inside and outside the Gaza Strip received new indications confirming the assassination of Deif.”

    The IDF announced as early as July of this year that they had taken out Deif in a strike in the nearby Al-Mawasi area. Yunis Innbut Hamas denied he was killed.

    Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that officials around Deif confirmed that after communication between them and the Hamas leadership was restored, contact with Deif was lost from the Israeli operation targeting him.

    Sources said officials around Deif sent a written message confirming that contact with him had been lost and that days after the July 13 attack on him, half of a person’s body was found at the target’s location – which Asharq Al-Awsat reported. claims was likely to be Deif.

    Documenting the attack on Khan Yunis, the assassination attempt on Mohammed Deif (Credit: Arab Networks)

    His alleged body was kept for many hours and samples were taken from it before it was allowed to be buried in one of the cemeteries in Khan Yunis, according to Asharq Al-Awsat.

    The samples confirmed to Deif’s security officials that half of the body belonged to him, Hamas sources told the Arab news source. However, some of those close to him and his family have raised doubts that he was really assassinated.

    However, with the long period of absence and the loss of communication with him, al-Qassam Brigade leaders became certain that he had indeed been killed, the report added.

    Hamas sources explained Asharq Al-Awsat that the delay in announcing the confirmation of Deif’s death to other Hamas leaders was due to the difficulty of communication between them amid the current war.

    Hamas investigated suspects who allegedly leaked Deif’s location in Israel

    Two people, whom the report called “mail messengers,” were also being investigated by Hamas, the sources added.

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    The first, a Rafah resident, sent messages between those Al-Qassam Brigades leaders and is suspected of collaborating with Israel and leaking Deif’s location.

    He was allegedly accompanied by the second suspect, who was responsible for passing the messages directly to Rafa Salama, the head of the Khan Yunis branch of the Al-Qassam Brigades, who was killed alongside Deif in July.

    Hours after the July attack that killed them both, sources confirmed Salama’s death Asharq Al-Awsatnoting that he was buried in a cemetery in the city by some of his relatives and Hamas terrorists.



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