Jerusalem, Aug 8 (EFE).- Israeli forces announced on Thursday that they had killed senior Hamas official Nael Sakhl, who was involved in directing attacks in the West Bank.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Sakhl was attacked during a t operation with Shin Bet on July 24.
Sakhl was involved in directing terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria, a biblical and historical term by which Israel refers to the occupied West Bank, which in parallel to the war in Gaza is experiencing its highest peak of violence with more than 620.
Palestinians killed since Oct. 7, 20 of them since Saturday in Israeli raids and attacks in Tulkarem, Tubas and Jenin.
Israel said that several days after the attack, intelligence information was received indicating that Sakhl had been eliminated.
According to the IDF’s statement, Sakhl operated in Hamas’ West Bank headquarters for over a decade.
He was responsible for directing terrorist activities in the West Bank, in addition to being involved in directing terrorist activities, financing and supplying weapons to cells that promoted terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers in that area, the statement added.
Almost 40,000 Palestinians have died in the war that broke out in Gaza following Hamas’ attack on Israeli territory on Oct. 7, 2023 and some 92,000 have been wounded, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of parts of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, to begin a military operation.
The IDF announced the end of its weeks-long military operation in Bani Suheila, on the outskirts of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave, where it returned at the end of July after the entire area suffered a harsh military offensive between December and April. EFE
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