An Israeli strike on the al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip reportedly killed three operatives earlier today, according to a security-affiliated source. The source named the men as Saba'ai Abu Hasna, Ahmad Samir Washa — brother of recently killed Al Jazeera journalist Muhammad Washa — and Abd al-Rahman Abu Jarqod.
Earlier today (Sat 21:04 Jerusalem), a security-affiliated source reported that an Israeli strike in the al-Bureij refugee camp killed three operatives and released their names: Saba'ai Abu Hasna, Ahmad Samir Washa — identified as the brother of Muhammad Washa, an Al Jazeera journalist killed in an Israeli strike in the same camp on June 13 — and Abd al-Rahman Abu Jarqod. This update follows the initial report by The Zioneer at Sat 19:32 that a drone strike had hit the Abu Hasna family home in al-Bureij, killing three people, including Ahmad Washaah, an Al Jazeera photographer. The earlier thread reported the strike without naming the other two casualties or specifying the operatives' organizational affiliation; the current source provides names but still does not attribute them to a specific militant group.
The thread began at Sat 19:32 with a first bulletin stating an Israeli Air Force strike on a building in the Bureij camp killed three people, with no details on affiliation or target. Within minutes, a second version identified one of the dead as Al Jazeera photographer Ahmad Washaah. A third version, also at Sat 19:32, confirmed the killed journalist as Ahmad Washaah and added that his journalist brother had been killed in an Israeli strike about two and a half months earlier. The current update — the fourth in the thread — adds the names of the other two killed men from a security-affiliated source, but the IDF has not issued an official statement on this strike or the identities.
As The Zioneer reported on Sat 19:54 (BACKGROUND item), the drone strike hit the Abu Hasna family home and killed three people, among them Ahmad Washaah; Palestinian sources reported 10 Gaza-wide fatalities from Israeli strikes that day. Separately, The Zioneer reported on Sat Jun 13 (14:24 Jerusalem) that the IDF struck a Hamas cell disguised as municipality workers near al-Bureij, killing one operative. The context also includes a June 8 report of an IDF airstrike killing three Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in central Gaza, though no link to the current incident has been established.
What remains open: the operatives' organizational affiliation has not been specified by the security-affiliated source; the IDF has not commented on the strike or the identities; and the exact circumstances of the strike — including whether it was a drone or other platform — have not been officially confirmed beyond the initial thread reporting a drone strike.
3 developments
- DevelopingOne killed, several wounded in IDF strike on Hamas cell disguised as municipality workers near al-Bureij
- ConfirmedIDF airstrike kills three PIJ terrorists in central Gaza
- ConfirmedIDF kills two Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives in southern Gaza strike
- DevelopingIDF Haruv Reconnaissance Unit kills one Hamas operative, wounds and captures another in central Gaza ambush
Source and signal
- Internal intake