MONSTER DEAD
Israel kills one-eyed Hamas chief Mohammed Deif dubbed ‘The Guest’ who masterminded Oct 7 massacre in Gaza airstrike
Days ago Israel took out another Hamas mastermind - Ismail Haniyeh - with a rocket strike as he slept in Iran
HAMAS terror boss Mohammed Deif has been assassinated in an airstrike, the Israeli army has revealed.
One-eyed Mohammed Deif, dubbed "The Guest", was one of the terrorist architects behind the October 7 attacks that killed 1,200 people in Israel last year.
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IDF fighter jets took out the terrorist mastermind in a "precise, targeted" strike on a compound in Gaza on July 13.
The army announced the strike at the time, but only revealed today that they were successful.
They said on Thursday morning: “The IDF announces that on July 13th, 2024, IDF fighter jets struck in the area of Khan Yunis, and following an intelligence assessment, it can be confirmed that Mohammed Deif was eliminated in the strike."
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari released footage online of the fierce hit, with an enormous explosion breaking out in a blitzed area of southern Gaza.
"Mohammed Deif was the Commander of Hamas' Military Wing, and second in command of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip," the army added.
The statement said: "Deif initiated, planned, and executed the October 7th Massacre, in which 1,200 people were killed in southern Israel and 251 hostages abducted into the Gaza Strip."
Deif, along with Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and political chief Ismail Haniyeh, was one of three top targets for the Israeli forces.
News of his death comes just days after another Israeli precision strike took out Haniyeh as he slept soundly in Iran's capital.
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58-year-old terror kingpin Deif had worked as the head of Hamas' ruthless military wing, the al-Qassam brigades, since 2002.
Previously compared to Osama Bin Laden, he has dodged more than a dozen assassination attempts and countless strikes from Israel over the years.
Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said this morning: "Muhammad Deif, the ‘Osama Bin Laden of Gaza,’ was eliminated on 13.07.24.
"This is a significant milestone in the process of dismantling Hamas as a military and governing authority in Gaza, and in the achievement of the goals of this war.
"This operation reflects the fact that Hamas is disintegrating, and that Hamas terrorists may either surrender or they will be eliminated.
"We will not rest until this mission is accomplished."
Israel has repeatedly vowed to completely eradicate terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The IDF invaded the enclave in late October last year and at least 35,000 Palestinians have died in the almost 10 months since, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said.
One of the attempts to take out Deif, an air strike in 2021, confined him to life in a wheelchair after he lost both his legs, one arm and an eye.
He survives by hiding out in Gaza’s underground tunnel network — which he helped plan — or moving to new safe houses every night.
Born in a refugee camp, he changed his name to Deif — which means “The Guest” in Arabic — to reflect his constant moves from house to house.
Sinwar, the final target from the top three terror bosses, is believed to be hiding out in the tunnels of the war-torn Strip.
Israel has yet to officially comment on its hit on political Hamas boss Haniyeh in the early hours of Tuesday.
One of the founding members of the terror group, Haniyeh unflinchingly represented the bloodthirsty cult for decades, even past the death of his own children.
He was traced by Israeli spies as he attended the inauguration for the new Iranian president in Tehran on Tuesday.
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Israel’s secretive Shin Bet intelligence arm discovered exactly which room of his accommodation Haniyeh was sleeping in, with scores of others also in the block.
A rocket was then launched from a drone into his room, detonating and killing him and his bodyguard.
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