The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) mourned today, Friday, Mahmoud Hamdan, the commander of the Tel al-Sultan Battalion in Rafah, who it said was martyred along with the head of the movement's political bureau, Yahya Sinwar, in a clash with Israeli army forces in the southern Gaza Strip the day before yesterday, Wednesday.

The movement said in a statement: "We mourn the martyr leader Mahmoud Hamdan "Abu Yousef", the commander of the Tel Sultan Battalion in Rafah, who was martyred, advancing and not retreating, clashing with the occupation army in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, along with the leader of the flood, the martyr, the mujahid leader Yahya Sinwar."

The Israeli army confirmed yesterday, Thursday, that Sinwar was killed during clashes in the southern Gaza Strip.

It said in a statement that his soldiers carried out operations during the past few days in the southern Gaza Strip based on intelligence information indicating that Hamas leaders were present in the area, noting that a force from the 828th Brigade was present in the area and clashed with 3 fighters and killed them, and after examination it became clear that Sinwar was one of them.

Source: Al Jazeera