Al Jazeera has received a statement from the Israeli army and intelligence services saying that they had targeted a building and three Hamas figures were killed. They were verifying whether one of them was, in fact, the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh writes.

“We have to stress there is absolutely no confirmation. We have not heard from Hamas,” Odeh said.

Odeh adds that Israeli military sources have said it could take hours to confirm from their end whether the assassination was successful, but if that is correct, this would be the second head of Hamas killed just during this conflict.