{"id":2000113197,"date":"2026-05-27T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000113197"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:20:58","slug":"israel-says-it-killed-newly-appointed-hamas-military-chief-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-says-it-killed-newly-appointed-hamas-military-chief-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says it killed newly appointed Hamas military chief in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that Odeh, whom he described as Hamas’ fourth-ranking official, had been killed. “We promised that Hamas will not have military or civilian control over Gaza, and so it will be,” Katz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamas did not immediately confirm or comment on the report. Palestinian media reported that Odeh was killed along with his wife, two sons and daughter in a strike in western Gaza City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday night that Israeli forces had attempted to assassinate Odeh in a strike carried out under his and Katz’s direction, but gave no details on the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odeh was appointed about a week ago to succeed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, who was killed in an Israeli strike on May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Awda recently replaced senior Hamas commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on May 15.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel said on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammed Odeh, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of Hamas’ armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, in a strike in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000113199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000113197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000113199,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/97d52c2812adfb7a9f9cf8a07c61f039.jpg","alt":"","caption":"Awda recently replaced senior Hamas commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on May 15.","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1200,"height":672,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/97d52c2812adfb7a9f9cf8a07c61f039.jpg","width":150,"height":84},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/97d52c2812adfb7a9f9cf8a07c61f039.jpg","width":300,"height":168},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/97d52c2812adfb7a9f9cf8a07c61f039.jpg","width":768,"height":430},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/97d52c2812adfb7a9f9cf8a07c61f039.jpg","width":1024,"height":573},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/97d52c2812adfb7a9f9cf8a07c61f039.jpg","width":1200,"height":672}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000113197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000113200,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113197\/revisions\/2000113200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000113199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000113197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000113197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000113197"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000113197"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000113197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}