{"id":1477642,"date":"2024-07-15T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1477642"},"modified":"2024-07-15T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:25:00","slug":"hamas-says-top-commander-alive-well-after-israel-reported-his-likely-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/hamas-says-top-commander-alive-well-after-israel-reported-his-likely-death\/1477642\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Says Top Commander Alive &amp; Well After Israel Reported His Likely Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Hamas Says Top Commander Alive &amp; Well After Israel Reported His Likely Death<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>On Monday Hamas announced that its top military commander, the chief of the Qassem Brigades\u00a0Mohammed Deif, <strong>is safe and escaped a massive Israeli strike targeting him Saturday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF military attack hit a camp for the internally displaced, killing at least 90 people and wounding hundreds more. Gaza authorities say that civilians were wiped out in what should have been a safe zone, but Israel has claimed it was mostly militants killed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/israel-palestinians-gaza\/2024\/07\/14\/id\/1172464\/\"><em>The Associated Press<\/em><\/a> is reporting, &#8220;Hamas said Sunday that Gaza cease-fire talks continue and the <strong>group&#8217;s military commander is in good health<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/tankgaza.jpg?itok=v0PMpdl6\"><em>Getty Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israeli leadership and media for nearly 24 hours speculated that Deif could be dead, but uncertainty has loomed. Israel has said, however, that\u00a0Rafa Salama &#8211; a close associate to Deif &#8211; was killed in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>US ambassador to Israel Jack Lew said Monday he believed there are indications Deif has been eliminated. &#8220;There are still many questions regarding the results of the attack against Mohammed Deif,&#8221; \u200b\u200bhe said in a press briefing. &#8220;I can&#8217;t confirm whether it was successful or not, but there are<strong> indications that they have achieved it<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the major aerial assault, there were reports Sunday that Hamas has pulled out of Qatar-mediated ceasefire talks, but the reports proved premature and Hamas has since announce it did not pull out.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, airstrikes have been reported Monday across all areas of Gaza, leading to an uptick in casualties. <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> has some of the latest updates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2024\/7\/15\/israels-war-on-gaza-live-endless-massacre-in-gaza-as-israel-kills-17\">as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Gaza heaquarters of the UN\u2019s Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, in Gaza City has been \u201cflattened and turned into a battlefield\u201d, says chief Philippe Lazzarini, as Israel\u2019s latest ground campaign in the city continues to rage.<\/em><br \/>\n\t<em>Children among the 80 Palestinians killed over the past day as fighter jets, heavy artillery, and helicopter gunships attack Gaza from the north to south.<\/em><br \/>\n\t<em>Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant praises the pilots who carried out deadly air strikes on the al-Mawasi displacement camp\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2024\/7\/13\/israeli-air-raid-on-al-mawasi-kills-90-people-what-we-know-so-far\">that killed 90 people,<\/a>\u00a0saying Hamas is being eroded every day with no ability to arm itself, organise, or \u201ccare for the wounded\u201d.<\/em><br \/>\n\t<em>Officials in Gaza say Israeli missiles killed 17 Palestinians and injured 80\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/gallery\/2024\/7\/15\/israel-bombs-yet-another-un-run-school-in-gaza-killing-17\">sheltering at a United Nations school<\/a>\u00a0for displaced people in Nuseirat refugee camp.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But the Israeli side could be taking more losses than what has been made public. On Monday the Israeli military in a briefing warned that it is <strong>low on tanks and ammunition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/deif.jpg?itok=JcSvOh4H\"><em>Mohammed Deif<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the course of the war, <strong>many tanks were damaged, which are disabled at this stage and are not used for combat or training<\/strong>, and it is not expected that new tanks will be introduced into the corps in the near future,&#8221; the Israeli military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2024\/7\/15\/israels-war-on-gaza-live-endless-massacre-in-gaza-as-israel-kills-17\">said<\/a> in a statement. It noted that resources are &#8220;very limited&#8221; due to the constraints of the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 07\/15\/2024 &#8211; 18:25<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hamas-says-top-commander-alive-well-after-israel-reported-his-likely-death\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hamas-says-top-commander-alive-well-after-israel-reported-his-likely-death<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas Says Top Commander Alive &amp; Well After Israel Reported His Likely Death On Monday Hamas announced that its top military commander, the chief of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1477643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}