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Hamas admits death of Mohammed Deif to Arab newspaper

Hamas sources admitted the death of Mohammed Deif, the former head of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, the terrorist organization's military wing, months after Israel confirmed his elimination, the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Friday.

The Arab source's report said that “the leadership of the terrorist organization inside and outside the Gaza Strip has received new information confirming the assassination of Deif.”

The IDF announced back in July this year that it had eliminated Deif in an attack in the Al-Mawasi area near Khan Yunis, but Hamas denied that he was killed.

Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that officials surrounding Deif confirmed that after communication was restored between them and the Hamas leadership, contact with Deif had been lost since the Israeli operation that targeted him.

Sources said officials surrounding Deif sent a written message confirming that contact with him had been lost and that a half-body of a person was found at the target's location a few days after the attack on him on July 13 is – what Asharq Al-Awsat reports The claims may have been Deif.

Documentation of the attack on Khan Yunis, attempted assassination of Mohammed Deif (Source: Arab Networks)

His alleged body was kept and samples taken for many hours before it was allowed to be buried in one of the cemeteries in Khan Yunis, it is said Asharq Al-Awsat.

The samples confirmed to those responsible for Deif's security that half of the body was his, Hamas sources told the Arabic news source. Nevertheless, doubts were expressed among some of his relatives and family that he had actually been murdered.

However, due to the long period of his absence and the loss of communication with him, it became certain to the leaders of the al-Qassam Brigade that he had actually been killed, the report continued.

Hamas sources said this Asharq Al-Awsat that the delay in announcing confirmation of Deif's death to other Hamas leaders was due to communication difficulties between them amid the current war.

Hamas is investigating suspects who allegedly passed Deif's location to Israel

Sources added that two people referred to in the report as “postmen” were also under investigation by Hamas.

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The first, a resident of Rafah, passed messages between the leaders of the Al-Qassam Brigades and is suspected of collaborating with Israel and revealing Deif's location to it.

He was reportedly accompanied by the second suspect, who was responsible for transmitting messages directly to Rafa Salama, the head of the Khan Yunis branch of the Al-Qassam Brigades, who was killed along with Deif in July.

Hours after the July attack that killed both, sources confirmed Salama's death Asharq Al-AwsatHe pointed out that he was buried in a cemetery in the city by some of his relatives and Hamas terrorists.



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