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Ismail Barhoum, a senior member of Hamas’s political bureau, was killed late on March 23 in a daring Israeli strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Initially, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had targeted a “key Hamas terrorist” inside the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. In a joint statement with the Shin Bet security agency, the military said that the strike was carried out following “an extensive intelligence-gathering process” and using “precision munition.”
Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed soon later that the IDF “successfully eliminated” Barhoum in the strike on Nasser Hospital.
Katz hailed the IDF and Shin Bet for the strike on Barhoum, who he said was “the new Hamas prime minister in Gaza, who replaced Issam Da’alis, the previous prime minister who was eliminated a few days ago.”
Barhoum was a prominent member of Hamas’s political bureau and had been reportedly involved in financial activities for the group.
Following Katz’s announcement, Hamas acknowledged that Barhoum was killed. In a statement, the group said that the senior official was killed undergoing treatment at Nasser Hospital.
The Israeli pinpoint strike on Nasser Hospital was caught on the live coverage of both Al Jazeera and BBC Arabic. Palestinian health officials revealed that the strike killed two people, Barhoum and a 16-year-old boy who had recently undergone surgery.
Out of the 20 members of Hamas’s political bureau elected in 2021, 11 have been assassinated during the war in Gaza, and seven are either certainly or highly likely to be outside Gaza.
Many senior military commanders of Hamas have also been assassinated since the IDF resumed its offensive on Gaza last week.
Earlier on March 23, the IDF said that Ahmad Salman ‘Awj Shimali, the deputy commander of the Gaza City Brigade, and Jamil Omar Jamil Wadiya, the commander of the brigade’s Shejaiya Battalion, were killed in airstrikes in recent days. The military did not detail where or when they were killed.
According to the IDF, Shimali was “responsible for operations, planning the offensive strategy and building the brigade’s force in preparation for Hamas’s brutal massacre on October 7, [2023],” and during the war, he was responsible for the deployment of the brigade’s force.
Wadiya took over the Shejaiya Battalion after his predecessors were killed in December 2023, according to the army. On December 2, 2023, the IDF killed Shejaiya Battalion commander Wissam Farhat and, a week later, it killed his replacement Emad Qariqa.
“Wadiya was responsible for deploying the battalion’s forces against IDF troops and operated to restore and reorganize the battalion,” the military said.
The statement added that Wadiya was also involved in a 2011 anti-tank missile attack on an Israeli school bus driving near the Gaza border. The attack killed 16-year-old Daniel Viflic.
In addition, Palestinian media reported early on March 24 that overnight strikes had also killed Manar Abu Khater, director of education at the eastern Khan Younis education directorate for the Strip’s Hamas government, among others.
Since resuming operations on March 18, Israeli troops have reoccupied key areas in the north, center and south of Gaza. More than 700 Palestinians, including women and children, have also been killed in the renewed offensive so far.
With Hamas and other Palestinian armed factions showing no resistance whatsoever, Israel appears to be preparing to further widen its operations in the Strip.
Following the assassination of Barhoum, Katz said that the ongoing offensive against Hamas was “expanding,” vowing that Israel would continue its strikes until the 59 hostages still held by the group in Gaza are released.
Separately, the IDF announced that the 36th Division, which spent months in the north and took part in a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, was redeployed to the Southern Command and had begun preparations for military operations in Gaza.
Only the Gaza Division and 252nd Reserve Division are currently carrying out operations inside the Strip. The deployment of the 36th Division would add thousands of more troops to the offensive.
All in all, more than a year of intense fighting have apparently exhausted Hamas. With over 50,000 Palestinians killed and most of Gaza destroyed, a political settlement seems to be the group’s best bet.
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watch: iraqi shi’ite militia leader: 10/7 was a trap for shi’ites iraqi shi’ite militia leader watheq al-battat explained during a march 8, 2025, interview on samarra tv (iraq) the motive behind shi’ite intervention in the gaza war, despite the high cost.
memri – middle east research institute 7:40 am he stated that failure to intervene would have brought shame upon their ideology as shi’ites.
sucked in .
al-battat emphasized that if iran had not intervened on behalf of palestine, it would have lost its ruling power. he claimed that all bombs used against the israeli military in gaza, rockets launched by hezbollah, missiles and drones from yemen, and weapons used by iraqi militias to attack israel were iranian.
al-battat criticized russian interference in the palestinian cause, saying it has been more beneficial to israel than american intervention.
i’ve always said that russia can’t be trusted, here’s confirmation from this iraqi militia leader, she’s zionist to the core, and some dare to say that if the usa attacks iran, russia will help her, the joke of the backward
nobody cares what feminized liar moron amerikunt says
chabad poots and his kosher kremlin more beneficial to shitrael ? ? yes, it’s taken the mass murder of tens of thousands of small children to reveal what this svengali character, and his dubious gang, are all about.
i think it was bidens personal interference that caused the entire bloodbath between the jews and moslems and has decimated the middle east .meanwhile hunters partying and joes laying about on the beach .
excellent…….
al-battat agreed with the interviewer’s suggestion that the october 7 attack was a “trap set for the shi’ite resistance axis,” noting that the shi’ites had fallen into the trap and highlighting the loss of key figures such as hassan nasrallah, hashem safieddine and senior “martyrs” in the iraqi resistance. he further criticized hamas for retreating after october 7, failing to press the attack deeper into israel, which he described as “stupid,” and ultimately
leading to israel’s bombingsand the destruction of gaza. well, this is what it says on newsral, maybe it’s just propaganda, or maybe the shiites have already realized that iran has led them to destruction.
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https://jiha dwatc h.org/ 2025/03 /what-t he-ala wites-s uffere d-was-m uch-mu ch-wo rse-than- rep orted that is if you have iran and russia as allies. سوريا: مصادر محلية للميادين: تسجيل حالات اختطاف يومية لمواطنين في محافظتي حماة وحمص 23 آذار سوريا: مصادر محلية للميادين: أكثر من 100 شخص تم اختطافهم خلال أقل من 48 ساعة في مناطق الساحل السوري
those weirdos who fled to iraq need to sign a contract with the uae.
all these resistance leaders, men and women of individual integrity, representing their people are murdered, one by one, as if on script. for decades, this looks like a diabolical set-up, co- ordinated by caucasians, insanely pushed on by an anti human entity.
a nuclear fire is less than what these anti human vermin deserve.
so many comments so many names
looking at oneself retrospectively are we ? offended at some perceived activity that emulates your efforts is it ?
you shitball troll. lol. 😃
and biden set it all up by removing the sanctions on iran enabling oct 7th and aided zelensky with all the crooked deals hunter made and by plundering american taxpayers for 350 billion and then they say :oh he didn’t know what he was doing .how much.kick backs his family getting ???
are you serious? are you trolling? biden did not remove any sanctions on iran.
apparently killing civil servants in a hospital isn’t terrorism.
“daring israeli strike” = despicable zionist war crime
made possible by mobile phones that pick up everything and internet databases that swallow and categorize fast
and palestinian prisoners released after they became infected with mindcontrol monitoring
all palestinians declared to be chief officials of hamas or hezbollah by israeli media . this includes women , children and infants . hasbara has to sell genocide to israelis also . indoctrination is a buisness .
strange kind of diplomacy: killing all the hamas leaders, so who would be the one with make peace ‘agreements’?
“daring israeli strike” on hospital patients. “political settlement is the group’s best bet.” somebody here has a pretty weird sense of humour. 50,000+ murdered. 25,000+ children murdered. i’m really. really, really, really sure that the subhuman filth of the genocidal zionist terror regime would fully abide by the conditions of any “political settlement.” honest.
the jews are showing the world their true nature which is murder ethnic cleansing and thievery on a grand scale and the world is as quiet as a mouse! in fact the jews is nothing better than landfill once the americ*nts are bankrupt and enabler trump and his grandson kusihner are swiinging from a lamppost in dc!