Marwan Issa, Hamas’s third highest-ranking member in the Gaza Strip, had been successfully eliminated by Israel, the White House’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Monday, Haaretz, an Israeli news outlet, reported.
Sullivan acknowledged that “Israel has made significant progress against Hamas” and mentioned the death of Issa “in an Israeli operation last week” and other “senior commanders” as one example of such military successes, the Israeli news outlet noted. (RELATED: Netanyahu Defies Biden, Green Lights Offensive Into Hamas Stronghold)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) noted that it had targeted Issa, who was the “deputy of Mohammad Deif [head of Hamas’ military wing] and one of the planners of the Oct. 7 Massacre,” in an airstrike “on an underground compound” but previously tweeted on March 11 that they were “assessing the results of the…
