{"id":448081,"date":"2026-05-18T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/448081\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:13:08","slug":"hamas-names-mohammed-ouda-as-new-leader-of-military-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/448081\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas names Mohammed Ouda as new leader of military wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamas<\/a> has named Mohammed Ouda as the new leader of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, its military wing, following the assassination of Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, London-based Saudi state-owned outlet Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

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

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

He was selected for the role in part because he is one of the last remaining council members who had an active role in planning and supervising the October 7<\/a> attack.<\/p>\n

According to the Saudi outlet, 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 Mohammed Deif, and his work with Hamas<\/a> began around the First Intifada that broke out in 1987. Deif was head of the Qassam Brigades during the October 7 Massacre and was assassinated by Israel in 2024.<\/p>\n

Ouda has survived several assassination<\/a> attempts, before and after the current war, but during most attempts, he was not at the location targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamas has named Mohammed Ouda as the new leader of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, its military wing, following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,51,42,47,43,209615,58,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-448081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-qassams","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}