The head of Hamas's internal security apparatus in the Gaza Strip, Wael al-Dadaoui, was killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on his vehicle in the central Gaza Strip, according to i24NEWS. The report quotes from its own correspondents. Hamas's Interior Security Mechanism oversees policing and civil order in areas under the group's control; Dadaoui is the second senior Hamas security figure killed in as many hours.
The head of Hamas's internal security mechanism, Wael al-Dadaoui, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his vehicle in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, i24NEWS confirmed, citing its own correspondents. The confirmation comes hours after the strike was first reported, and follows a series of earlier reports that progressively named the target and established the outcome.
At 12:18 Jerusalem, Palestinian sources reported an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Deir al-Balah, with no details on casualties or the target. Minutes later, at 12:18, The Zioneer published an initial report citing Arab sources that identified the target as Wael al-Dadaoui, head of Hamas's internal security mechanism for the central Gaza Strip, and noted that Hamas police officer Ramaz Abu Zariq was seriously wounded. At 12:39, security analyst Yair Goldblatt relayed the same identification from Arab reports. At 12:54, N12 journalist Sapir Lipkin confirmed the identity and elimination. The current i24NEWS report, citing its own field correspondents, provides the most authoritative confirmation to date.
Dadaoui led the Hamas Internal Security Mechanism, responsible for policing, traffic enforcement, and civil administration in areas under the group's control. The elimination follows a pattern of Israeli strikes targeting both military and governance infrastructure of Hamas, as The Zioneer has reported throughout the conflict — including the head of the military security department for the Central Jabaliya Battalion on July 15 and a Resistance Committees commander in central Khan Younis on July 7.
The i24NEWS report has not been independently confirmed by Israeli military sources. No casualty toll from the strike was provided beyond the named target, and the exact location (Deir al-Balah according to earlier reports) has not been independently verified.
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