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Israel announced on Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces had carried out a strike in Gaza targeting Mohammed Odeh, [the surname 'h' is pronounced as an 'r'] whom officials identified as the new leader of Hamas’s military wing and a senior figure involved in the October 7 attack on Israel.
An Israeli official told Kan News that Odeh was killed in the strike, though his death has not yet been officially confirmed.
In a joint statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz declared that the operation had been conducted under their direction and had targeted Odeh, “one of the architects of the Oct. 7 massacre.”
According to the statement, Odeh had served as head of Hamas intelligence staff during the October 7 attack and had been appointed only about a week earlier to replace Izz al-Din al-Haddad.
Odeh “was responsible for the murder, abduction, and injury of many Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” the statement said.
Israeli officials reported that al-Haddad himself had been killed in an IDF strike in the Gaza Strip some two weeks earlier. Al-Haddad had been the head of Hamas’s military wing, one of the central planners behind numerous terror attacks, and among the last remaining senior figures involved in orchestrating the October 7 massacre. He had belonged to Hamas for roughly three decades and was regarded by Israel as a major threat to both civilians and soldiers alike.
Netanyahu and Katz praised the Israeli military and security services for the precision of the strike.
“Congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet for their ongoing efforts to eliminate our enemies,” the statement said, repeating Israel’s solemn pledge to continue targeting those connected to October 7.
“We will continue to pursue everyone who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre. Sooner or later, Israel will reach all of them,” the statement said.
The announcement identified Odeh as merely the latest senior Hamas figure to assume a leadership role in the group’s military wing, only to meet the same fate as his predecessors following recent Israeli operations in Gaza. In this grim but necessary accounting, the architects of that day of slaughter find no refuge.
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