It is unclear if Mohammed Deif was killed in the attack, which also injured close to 300 others.
CAIRO – An Israeli airstrike targeted Hamas’ military chief Mohammed Deif in Gaza on July 13, a security official and Israel Army Radio said, in an attack that the enclave’s health ministry said had killed at least 71 Palestinians.Army Radio said Deif was hiding in a building in Israeli-designated humanitarian zone Al-Mawasi, west of the southern city of Khan Younis.
The Gaza health ministry said at least 71 Palestinians had been killed in the strike and 289 injured. A senior Hamas official did not confirm whether Deif had been present and called the Israeli allegations “nonsense”.
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