{"id":39022,"date":"2026-05-27T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/hamas-says-al-qassams-top-commander-mohammed-awda-was-killed-in-an-israeli-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:56:14","slug":"hamas-says-al-qassams-top-commander-mohammed-awda-was-killed-in-an-israeli-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/hamas-says-al-qassams-top-commander-mohammed-awda-was-killed-in-an-israeli-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas says Al-Qassam’s top commander, Mohammed Awda, was killed in an Israeli strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hamas has announced the killing of Mohammed Awda, a senior figure in its armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, following an Israeli attack on Gaza City, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Hamas said Awda was killed last night along with his wife and two sons in an Israeli attack that targeted a residential building.<\/p>\n

The group described Awda as a \u201csenior commander of Qassam” and said he belonged to “the first generation that laid the foundations of armed resistance and combat operations”.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Israeli military said it had killed Awda in an attack in northern Gaza, claiming he had recently been chosen as the new commander of Hamas’ armed wing.<\/p>\n

Israeli media also reported speculation that Awda had been appointed to the post after the latest killing. of Izz al-Din al-Haddad.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz also said the military had targeted Awdan in an airstrike in Gaza City.<\/p>\n

The Israeli statements followed heavy shelling in a densely populated area of central Gaza on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.<\/p>\n

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Hamas has announced the killing of Mohammed Awda, a senior figure in its armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, following an Israeli attack on Gaza City, Anadolu reports. In a statement, Hamas said Awda was killed last night along with his wife and two sons in an Israeli attack that targeted a residential building. The group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-39022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":4,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39024,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39022\/revisions\/39024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}