Top Hamas commander Raad Saad was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Saturday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces said, in an escalatory move that Israel claimed was a response to violations of a ceasefire by the terror group.

Israel has killed senior Hamas military figure Raad Saad in an airstrike on Gaza’s Rashid coastal road, in a move both sides frame as a major test of the new US‑brokered ceasefire. Saad, long described by Israeli officials as Hamas’s number‑two and head of its weapons‑manufacturing network,

The fragile Gaza ceasefire is now hanging by a thread after an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza coast killed Raad Saad, Hamas’s weapons chief marking the highest-profile assassination since the October truce.

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Israel says it has killed a senior Hamas official in response to an attack against Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.

According to Israeli officials, Saad was killed in an airstrike in the Tel al-Hawa district, southwest of Gaza City. The attack also claimed the lives of five other people. Palestinian medical sources and Gaza’s civil defense agency said the strike hit a civilian vehicle, which burst into flames, killing everyone inside.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir vows that the military will not allow Israel’s enemies to “build up” their capabilities, after an airstrike yesterday killed top Hamas official Raad Saad, who headed the terror group’s weapons manufacturing headquarters.