{"id":37270,"date":"2025-12-13T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37270"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:18:02","slug":"israel-claims-to-have-killed-senior-hamas-commander-raed-saad-in-gaza-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37270","title":{"rendered":"Israel claims to have killed senior Hamas commander, Raed Saad, in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas or from medics that Saad was among the dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 13 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">13 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>|<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Updated: 22 minutes ago<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Updated: 22 minutes ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Israeli military sats it has killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saad in a strike in Gaza City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The attack on Saturday killed four people and wounded at least 25, according to Gaza health authorities.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas or from medics that Saad was among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Telegram, the army alleged that the commander had been operating to re-establish Hamas\u2019s capabilities, which have been severely depleted by more than two years of Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza. It described him as one of the architects of the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If Saad was killed, it would be the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since a fragile ceasefire deal came into effect in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An Israeli defence official told the Reuters news agency that Saad had been targeted in the attack, describing him as the head of Hamas\u2019s weapons manufacturing force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hamas sources have also described him as the second-in-command of the group\u2019s armed wing, after Izz al-Din al-Haddad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Saad used to head Hamas\u2019s Gaza City battalion, one of the group\u2019s largest and best-equipped, those sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The Wafa news agency reported that an Israeli drone hit a vehicle at the Nabulsi junction in the west of Gaza City, resulting in casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The agency did not report on specific numbers, and it was not clear if the attack was the one that allegedly killed the Hamas member.<\/p>\n<p>Since the ceasefire started in October, Israel has continued to attack Gaza daily \u2013 reaching nearly 800 times and killing at least 386 people \u2013 in a clear breach of the agreement, according to authorities in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also continues to block the majority of aid trucks from entering the enclave. The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a resolution demanding that Israel open unrestricted humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, stop attacking UN facilities, and comply with international law, in line with its obligations as an occupying power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas or from medics that Saad was among the dead. Published On 13 Dec 202513 Dec 2025 | Updated: 22 minutes agoUpdated: 22 minutes ago Click here to share on social media share2 Share The Israeli military sats it has killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saad in a strike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1891,8365,267,1233,11064,214,1758,632,150,20636,20637,10970],"class_list":{"0":"post-37270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-claims","9":"tag-commander","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-hamas","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israelpalestine","15":"tag-killed","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-raed","18":"tag-saad","19":"tag-senior"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}