A founding member of Hamas — the terrorist group behind the weekend slaughter of more than 1,200 people, including babies — was among those killed Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, according to local reports.
Abd al-Fattah Dukhan, a senior Hamas official known as “Abu Osama,” was killed in an attack by Israeli Defense Forces in the central Gaza Strip, Israel’s KAN public broadcaster reported, citing local Palestinian reports.
The prominent member was taken down in the Nuseirat neighborhood in the center of Gaza, according to the report.
Two other senior Hamas leaders, Zachariah Abu Ma’amar and Jawad Abu Shamala, were also killed in overnight airstrikes o, Gaza on Tuesday, the IDF said, according to Israel National News.
Dukhan, a school principal at the al-Nusayrat refugee camp, was one of those at a 1987 offshoot meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood during which Hamas was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian who lived in Gaza.
Abd al-Fattah Dukhan, a senior Hamas official known as “Abu Osama,” was killed in an attack by Israeli Defense Forces.
Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip, home to 2 million people, since 2007. APAImages/ShutterstockAbu Ma’amar was involved in the organization’s decision-making and planning of terrorist actions against Israel, while Abu Shamala was Hamas’ economy minister.
Hamas, also known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, governs Gaza, a 25-mile-long strip of land along the Mediterranean with a population of more than 2 million people, and the West Bank, a larger area with both Palestinian and Israeli settlements under Israeli military occupation.
Israel-Hamas war: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.
2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.
Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.
Since its conception, Hamas has vowed to eradicate the Jewish state and create an Islamic state in its place, repeatedly deploying terrorist tactics against Israelis, including mass murder, rocket strikes, suicide bombings and kidnappings.
At least 1,200 Israelis have been killed since the weekend when the war broke out. APHamas has been in control of the Gaza Strip since 2007, after seizing the area from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority.
The group was labeled a terrorist organization by the United States and other Western nations in 1997.
At least 1,200 Israelis have been killed as a result of Hamas’ attack and an estimated 1,050 Palestinians have been killed in retaliation.
