Israel says killed Hamas’s internal security chief in Gaza strike

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The Israeli military said on Thursday it had killed the head of Hamas’s internal security agency in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip, the latest official targeted in recent days, AFP reports.

Israeli forces “in recent days … struck and eliminated the terrorist Rashid Jahjouh, head of the Hamas General Security Service, who assumed his position after the elimination of his predecessor, Sami Oudeh, in July 2024”, military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on X.

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