GAZA, OCT 3 : The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Thursday that it had eliminated the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Rawhi Mushtaha.

“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, Commander of Hamas’ General Security Mechanism,” the IDF wrote on Telegram.