"The IDF and ISA currently announce that approximately three months ago, in a joint IDF and ISA strike in the Gaza Strip, the following terrorists were eliminated: Rawhi Mushtaha, the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip; Sameh al-Siraj, who held the security portfolio on Hamas' political bureau and Hamas' Labor Committee; and Sami Oudeh, the commander of Hamas' General Security Mechanism," the IDF wrote on Telegram.
The protracted Palestine-Israeli conflict saw a dramatic turn in 2023 when the Hamas military organization launched “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” and crossed the Israeli border, catching its army off guard. On the same day, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was in a state of full-fledged war and started a full-fledged military operation against the Gaza Strip.