Thousands attended the funeral of senior Hamas military wing commander Ahmad al-Batsh in Gaza City on Tuesday, according to Abu Ali Express. Mourners chanted "Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem" and armed men fired into the air. Al-Batsh was eliminated overnight by the IDF in a precision drone strike.
Thousands attended the funeral of senior Hamas military wing commander Ahmad al-Batsh in Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon, according to reports monitored by The Zioneer from Abu Ali Express. Mourners chanted "Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem" as armed Hamas operatives fired into the air.
The Zioneer reported at 02:20 Tuesday that Hamas had officially confirmed al-Batsh's killing in an Israeli precision drone strike on his vehicle in northern Gaza City earlier that night. At 07:42, The Zioneer reported further details, noting that al-Batsh commanded the Jabaliya al-Bald battalion, previously served as head of the weapons department in northern Gaza, and played a central role in the October 7, 2023, attack on Israeli communities, including infiltrating Israel during the massacre. The initial reports came from Palestinian sources; the official Hamas statement later corroborated and expanded on the details.
As The Zioneer reported on Tuesday, al-Batsh was a senior figure in Hamas's military wing and commanded a battalion responsible for attacks on Israeli forces and communities. The precision strike that eliminated him is part of ongoing IDF counter-terror operations in the Gaza Strip targeting senior Hamas commanders involved in the October 7 massacre.
The funeral details, including crowd size and chants, come from Abu Ali Express, an Arabic-language news monitoring account. No independent verification of the attendance figures is available at this time.
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