The leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammed al-Hawli, has been martyred.
Sources reported on Thursday evening the martyrdom of Mohammed al-Hawli, a leader in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of the Hamas movement), following an Israeli occupation airstrike that targeted him in the city of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
This operation comes amid an intense military escalation by the occupation in the central and southern areas of the Strip since the morning hours.
Al-Hawli is considered one of the prominent field cadres, and his assassination comes at a sensitive time, coinciding with the announcement of the start of the "second phase" of the ceasefire agreement.
Observers believe that this operation could reignite the confrontation front and push the resistance to respond to these violations, putting the fate of recent security understandings at stake.
With Al-Hawli's martyrdom, the death toll from the Israeli occupation's shelling of Deir al-Balah and Rafah since the morning rises to eight martyrs.
Civil defense and ambulance crews continue to retrieve the injured from the bombing sites, amid intense overflights by reconnaissance aircraft (drones) that have not left the skies of the central region after the targeting operation.
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Media: Assassination of Al-Qassam leader "Mohammed Al-Hawli" after targeting his location in Deir al-Balah