How will Izz al-Din al-Haddad assassination impact Hamas’s Gaza operations?
Israel’s killing of Hamas’s top commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad tests the Gaza ceasefire as the group pledges to adapt.

Israel’s killing of Hamas’s top commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad tests the Gaza ceasefire as the group pledges to adapt.




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Regional de-escalation may shift focus to Gaza, where deadlock over Hamas weapons, future governance threatens ‘truce’.
Palestinians are voting in Gaza’s first municipal elections in 21 years. Around 70,000 people are registered to vote.
Attacks come as Palestinian groups meet mediators from Egypt, Turkiye and Qatar in Cairo to discuss fragile ‘ceasefire’.
Armed men have raided Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, apparently with support from the Israeli army.
Spokesperson Abu Obeida says calling for the group’s disarmament amounts to an attempt to continue Israel’s genocide.
Hamas’s armed wing says it will not discuss disarmament before Israel fully implements the first phase of ceasefire.
Analysts say a new US disarmament proposal exploits the regional war to enforce inequitable plan for Gaza.

An envoy from President Trump’s Board of Peace says a plan is in place to disarm groups in Gaza.
Rare US-Hamas talks come as the war on Iran strains the battered Gaza ‘ceasefire’ and post-war plans.
During his Knesset speech in Jerusalem, Modi mentioned multilateral projects on which India and Israel collaborate.