Israel confirmed on Wednesday it had killed the newly appointed head of terror group’s armed wing in Gaza on Tuesday, after killing his predecessor in a similar attack this month.
The Hamas’ most senior military leader was ‘eliminated yesterday and sent to meet his associates in the depths of hell,’ Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said.
‘In the Prime Minister’s name and in my own, congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet on the brilliant execution,’ Katz said in a post on X.
‘We committed ourselves to eliminating everyone who led the October 7 massacre, and that is what we will do: they are all marked for death, wherever they may be.’
Odeh, who previously headed Hamas’s intelligence division, was reportedly appointed to lead the military wing just days after his predecessor, Ezzedine al-Haddad, was killed in an earlier strike.
Katz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a joint statement that Odeh had ‘served as head of Hamas intelligence during the October 7 massacre and was appointed approximately one week ago as successor to Ezzedine al-Haddad’.
Haddad was killed by an Israeli strike on May 15.
‘Odeh was responsible for the murder, abduction and injury of numerous Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,’ Katz and Netanyahu said.
A relative of Odeh confirmed his death to Reuters and said the funeral would take place after noon prayers in Gaza City.
