Jerusalem / Anadolu

The Israeli army announced on Friday the killing of a Palestinian in a raid that targeted him in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, claiming he was a field activist in the Hamas movement who participated in holding Israeli captives.

The army said in a statement that the raid was carried out in cooperation with the General Security Service (Shin Bet) and targeted Anas Mahmoud Ahmed Hamdan, claiming he was a company commander in the Hamas movement.

It claimed that Hamdan participated in holding Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip and was a 'central figure' in their detention and return to Israel, and was also responsible for propaganda in the movement in the Khan Younis Brigade in the southern Gaza Strip.

It also alleged that he worked for years, and during the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, alongside a number of leaders of the movement's military wing, including Hamas military wing commander Mohammed Deif and Rafa Salama.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas on the Israeli army statement.

With American support, Israel began its genocidal war in Gaza on October 8, 2023, resulting in over 73,000 killed and more than 173,000 injured Palestinians, most of them children and women.

Despite the ceasefire agreement announced since October 10, 2025, Israel continues shelling, killing 1,127 Palestinians and injuring 3,643, most of them children and women.

It also prevents the entry of agreed quantities of food, medicine, medical supplies, shelter materials, and prefabricated homes into Gaza, where about 2.4 million Palestinians, including 1.5 million displaced people, live in catastrophic conditions.

In 1948, Israel was established on lands occupied by armed Zionist gangs that committed massacres and displaced at least 750,000 Palestinians, and Israel refuses to withdraw from these lands and to establish the Palestinian state stipulated in UN resolutions.