{"id":586811,"date":"2026-05-16T05:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586811\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:47:15","slug":"israel-says-it-has-killed-hamas-commander-in-gaza-air-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586811\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says it has killed Hamas commander in Gaza air strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ceasefire in Gaza came into effect on 10 October, but Israel has conducted regular strikes across the Palestinian territory since then.<\/p>\n

Hamas has repeatedly accused Israel of breaching the terms of the ceasefire and attacking civilians. The Israeli government maintains it has license to target Hamas members.<\/p>\n

It, in turn, accuses Hamas of refusing to disarm in breach of the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, US-led peace efforts have stalled since the start of the Iran war, with latter phases of the plan<\/a> yet to come into effect<\/p>\n

The US announced the start of the second phase of the plan in January, with governance of Gaza assumed by a transitional, technocratic administration alongside the demilitarisation and reconstruction of the territory.<\/p>\n

However, talks on disarmament remain deadlocked, while Hamas has since reactivated its police force and appears to be reasserting its authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu and Katz said Haddad had “refused to implement the agreement led by US President Trump to disarm Hamas and demilitarise the Gaza Strip”.<\/p>\n

They added: “We will continue to act forcefully and decisively against anyone who took part in the October 7 massacre.”<\/p>\n

The two-year-long Gaza war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.<\/p>\n

Israel responded by launching a military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, during which more than 72,744 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Of these, 857 have been killed since the ceasefire began, it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ceasefire in Gaza came into effect on 10 October, but Israel has conducted regular strikes across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-586811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}