GAZA/JERUSALEM, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Three Palestinians were killed and 26 others injured on Friday in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources said, as Israel said it struck a senior Hamas military commander.
Local sources and witnesses said Israeli warplanes fired at least three missiles at an apartment in the Al-Mu'taz building in western Gaza City, setting the apartment on fire.
Medics told Xinhua that emergency teams transferred one body and 20 injured people to the Al-Saraya Field Hospital run by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
In a separate incident, local sources said an Israeli drone struck a moving vehicle on Al-Wehda Street in Gaza City, killing two people and injuring six others.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military on Friday targeted Hamas military wing leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement.
Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported that al-Haddad, a senior commander in the al-Qassam Brigades, was struck by the Israeli air force in a hideout apartment in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City.
The channel quoted a senior security official as saying the strike was "successful," and al-Haddad was likely killed.
Israeli Army Radio reported that the Israeli army also targeted a vehicle that had left the area of the apartment, in an apparent effort to prevent escape.
The joint statement by Netanyahu and Katz said al-Haddad was one of the planners of the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, claiming that al-Haddad "refused to implement the agreement led by U.S. President Trump to disarm Hamas and demilitarize the Gaza Strip."
The attack comes amid escalating Israeli military operations targeting Hamas field commanders, alongside continued strikes across the Gaza Strip, where the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate. Enditem
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