Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida confirmed on Thursday the death of Mohammed Deif, the former head of Hamas’ military wing, six months after the Israel Defense Forces said it had killed him in a raid on the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip.

After many months of keeping silent on the matter, Hamas announced the death of seven of the organization’s senior leaders, including longtime military commander Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al Masri, commonly known as Muhammad Deif.

Hamas confirmed on Thursday the death of Mohammed Deif, the head of its military wing, six months after Israel announced he was killed. This is the first statement Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades,

Hamas says its top military commander Mohammed Deif has been killed. The Israeli military had said it killed Deif in an air attack in July, but the Palestinian group had not confirmed his death until Thursday. The spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said his death was “befitting”.

Hamas confirmed for the first time on Thursday that Israeli killed the head of its military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike last year. Deif was one of the alleged

Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced the martyrdom of the Chief of Staff of the Brigades, Mohammed al-Deif.

Hamas confirmed on Thursday the death of its military chief Mohammed Deif, accused by Israel of being one of the masterminds behind the October 7 attack and whose killing it announced last year. “The Al-Qassam Brigades announce to our great people the martyrdom of a group of distinguished fighters and heroic commanders,

Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif and deputy chief of staff Marwan Issa were killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas's armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obaida confirmed on Thursday that Mohammed Deif, the head of the armed wing, was killed in a July airstrike on a building in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

Hamas has confirmed the death of its top military commander, Mohammed Deif, months after Israel claimed to have killed him in an airstrike. The announcement was made by Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades,

In a post on X, IDF stated, "We can now confirm: Mohammed Deif was eliminated." The Israeli military said that it obtained intelligence confirming his death in the past few hours. Deif was targeted in a strike at Hamas' Khan Younis Brigade commander Rafa'a Salameh's compound in Khan Younis area on July 13, The Times of Israel reported.