Top Hamas commander who oversaw October 7 massacre killed in Israeli air strike

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Samir Mahmoud Abu Younis, a senior Hamas commander, who helped lead the October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel, has been killed by an Israeli airstrike

A top Hamas commander who helped carry out the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel had been killed in an airstrike.

Samir Mahmoud Abu Younis, commander of the Rafah Brigade, died in Al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip during an Israeli strike today (Sunday), says Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades military wing.

The Israeli military also confirmed it had killed the Hamas commander just after midnight Saturday, saying that Abu Younis had been directing plans "to advance and carry out terror attacks". Two months earlier, his predecessor in the role, Nael ⁠Abu Obeid, was also killed in an Israeli strike.

Medics in Gaza others were also injured in the strike which killed Abu Younis in the street in the Mawasi area of the city of Khan Younis.

Abu Younis joined Hamas' armed wing in 1991 and had ‌held several senior operational roles in Rafah before becoming commander of the brigade, Hamas said.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, wrote on Telegram that Younis had "participated in numerous high-profile operations and resisted enemy incursions". It stated that he was "one of the most important commanders involved in planning and overseeing the 7 October attack".

The attack by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, led to the killing of around 1,200 people and another 251 people were taken hostage, triggered the most recent war in Gaza.

Since then, more than 74,650 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip, the health ministry says.

A message from the Israeli Defence Force also told of Abu Younis' role in the October 7 attack in a post on X saying that he had been killed.

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