The IDF eliminated overnight Monday the head of the Operations Directorate of Hamas' Internal Security, Faiq Mabhouh.
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The military was conducting an anti-terrorism operation at Al-Shifa hospital following intelligence about the presence of Hamas terrorists there.
Video: IDF footage shows fire opened on troops from Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital / Credit: Reuters
According to an IDF statement, Mabhouh was hiding in a compound at Shifa, from which he operated and advanced terrorist activity.
He was in charge, among other things, of coordinating the Hamas mechanisms in the Gaza Strip. In the adjacent room to where he was killed, multiple weapons were found.
During the raid, Staff Sgt. Matan Vinogradov was killed.
Mabhouh's brother, Mahmoud, who was chief of logistics and weapons procurement for Hamas, was assassinated in Dubai in 2010, reportedly by the Mossad.
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