Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, referring to the killing of Samir Abu Yunis, one of the senior commanders of Hamas’s military wing, in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza, wrote on X: “Israel continues to remove Hamas leaders in Gaza, and another of them joins his predecessors in the depths of hell.”

He emphasized: “The offensive policy that I am pursuing together with the prime minister and the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza will continue until Gaza is made non-civilian and Hamas is destroyed.”