{"id":697077,"date":"2026-05-27T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:24:21","slug":"high-chance-idf-assassinated-brand-new-hamas-chief-mohammed-ouda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697077\/","title":{"rendered":"High chance IDF assassinated brand new Hamas chief Mohammed Ouda"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a high chance that the IDF succeeded on Tuesday night in assassinating Hamas\u2019s brand new military chief, Mohammed Ouda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Only 11 days after the IDF assassinated his predecessor, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, on May 15, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that they had attempted the assassination.<\/p>\n

Sometimes an assessment of success for such an assassination can be fast, but sometimes it can take hours, days, or weeks.<\/p>\n

If he were assassinated, he would join Haddad, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Mohammed Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and other top Hamas<\/a> officials whom Israel has assassinated since October 7, 2023. While his assassination would be a stunningly impressive intelligence accomplishment so soon after killing Haddad, it is far from clear that it will change the strategic picture with Hamas.<\/p>\n

Since the October 2025 ceasefire between the sides, Hamas has agreed to partial disarmament, handing over some heavy weapons, but only if Israel first withdraws from portions of the 53% of Gaza it controls and allows significant rebuilding of Gaza to begin.<\/p>\n

Israel has insisted on at least partial, if not full, disarmament before it makes such concessions.<\/p>\n

Ouda served as head of military intelligence for the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades during the October 7 massacre.<\/p>\n

He was reportedly offered the role of military head after the assassination of Sinwar in May 2025 but turned it down.<\/p>\n

Next, he was selected as one of the last remaining Hamas high command members<\/a> who had an active role in planning and supervising the October 7 attack. According to the foreign reports, the only remaining member of Hamas\u2019s core council is home front commander Imad Aqel, who did not participate in the attack.<\/p>\n

Ouda formerly served under Deif, and his work with Hamas began around the First Intifada that broke out in 1987. Deif headed the Qassam Brigades during the October 7 massacre and was assassinated by Israel in July 2024, after years of failed attempts.<\/p>\n

Ouda has survived several assassination attempts, before and after the current war, but during most attempts, he was not at the location targeted.<\/p>\n

Shir Perets contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a high chance that the IDF succeeded on Tuesday night in assassinating Hamas\u2019s brand new military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10537,8766,13191,43,54971,254251,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-697077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-israel-katz","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}