IDF kills Hamas weapons chief in northern Gaza brigade

Palestinian media reported that the IDF carried out an airstrike on a vehicle in northern Gaza shortly before midnight.

According to reports on social media, the man killed was Ahmad al-Batsh, head of the weapons staff in Hamas’s northern Gaza brigade. The reports said al-Batsh also served as commander of Hamas’s Jabalia Battalion during the war and was among the senior northern Gaza brigade commanders who invaded Israel on Oct. 7.