{"id":796959,"date":"2026-08-01T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:06:09","slug":"hamas-figure-youssef-al-kurdi-killed-in-gaza-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796959\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas figure Youssef al-Kurdi killed in Gaza &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-01T05:49:01+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News-<br \/>\nGaza<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli<br \/>\nmilitary and the Shin Bet security agency said they killed Abdul Rahim Abdul<br \/>\nHai Youssef al-Kurdi, the deputy commander of a cell in the armed wing of<br \/>\nHamas, in a strike in the Gaza City area.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Kurdi, killed on Thursday, also worked as a doctor at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in<br \/>\nthe Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli statement.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Kurdi,<br \/>\nper the statement, entered Israeli territory during the October 7, 2023 attack,<br \/>\nand that early in the war he was involved in holding Israeli captive Romi Gonen<br \/>\nin the Gaza area and at al-Shifa Hospital. They said he was also involved in<br \/>\nholding the body of Israeli soldier Corporal Noa Marciano in the Gaza City area<br \/>\nafter she was killed, until Israeli forces recovered her remains.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas did<br \/>\nnot confirm the Israeli account. <\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Gaza-strikes-kill-four-Hamas-Islamic-Jihad-commanders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July<\/a>, the<br \/>\nIsraeli military claimed responsibility of killing at least eight Hamas members<br \/>\nin separate strikes across Gaza, among them Homam Eid, identified as the<br \/>\ncommander of the armed wing&#8217;s drone unit; Mohammad Marwan Mohammad Salem,<br \/>\ndescribed as the military security chief of Hamas&#8217; Central Jabalia Battalion; and<br \/>\nOsama Naim Hamdi Shamlakh, named as a Hamas naval commander, who Israel said<br \/>\nwas killed in Gaza City. The military said the same operations also killed<br \/>\nAbdul Malik Abu al-Jibin, a member of the battalion&#8217;s elite unit and head of<br \/>\nthe investigations department in the Hamas-run police; Yamen Mohammad Jibril<br \/>\nObeid, a fighter in the Central Jabalia Battalion; and Ghassan Akram Salama<br \/>\nal-Daqs, a member of the West Jabalia Battalion who Israel said was also active<br \/>\nin the Hamas-run police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Hamas-agrees-Gaza-arms-framework-linked-to-Israeli-withdrawal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Hamas agrees Gaza arms framework linked to Israeli withdrawal<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#\u0639\u0627\u062c\u0644<\/a>\u203c\ufe0f \u062c\u064a\u0634 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0641\u0627\u0639 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0628\u0627\u0643 \u0642\u0636\u064a\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0646\u0627\u0626\u0628 \u0642\u0627\u0626\u062f \u062e\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0646\u0638\u0645\u0629 \u062d\u0645\u0627\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0631\u0647\u0627\u0628\u064a\u0629\u060c \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u0627\u062d\u062a\u062c\u0632 \u0631\u0648\u0645\u064a \u063a\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0646 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u064a\u0641 \u0646\u0648\u0639\u0627 \u0645\u0631\u062a\u0633\u064a\u0627\u0646\u0648\u060c \u0631\u062d\u0645\u0647\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u060c \u0628\u0639\u062f \u0645\u0642\u062a\u0644\u0647\u0627\u2b55\ufe0f \u0647\u0627\u062c\u0645 \u062c\u064a\u0634 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0641\u0627\u0639 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0628\u0627\u0643 \u0623\u0645\u0633 (\u0627\u0644\u062e\u0645\u064a\u0633) \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0646\u0637\u0642\u0629 \u0645\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u063a\u0632\u0629\u060c \u0648\u0642\u0636\u064a\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0631\u0647\u0627\u0628\u064a \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u064a\u0645 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u062d\u064a \u064a\u0648\u0633\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0631\u062f\u064a\u060c \u0646\u0627\u0626\u0628 \u0642\u0627\u0626\u062f \u062e\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0641\u064a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KM2lKTOnCQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KM2lKTOnCQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya | \u0625\u064a\u0644\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u0648\u064a\u0629 (@CaptainElla1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaptainElla1\/status\/2083210595013148958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 31, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-01T05:49:01+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Gaza The Israeli military and the Shin Bet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,5618,5617,338191,451,803,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-796959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hamas-figure-youssef-al-kurdi-killed-in-gaza","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}