Top Hamas commander Raad Saad was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Saturday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces said, in an escalatory move that Israel claimed was a response to violations of a ceasefire by the terror group.

Israel has killed senior Hamas military figure Raad Saad in an airstrike on Gaza’s Rashid coastal road, in a move both sides frame as a major test of the new US‑brokered ceasefire. Saad, long described by Israeli officials as Hamas’s number‑two and head of its weapons‑manufacturing network,

According to Israeli officials, Saad was killed in an airstrike in the Tel al-Hawa district, southwest of Gaza City. The attack also claimed the lives of five other people. Palestinian medical sources and Gaza’s civil defense agency said the strike hit a civilian vehicle, which burst into flames, killing everyone inside.

Jerusalem pushing US to press Hamas to hand over remains of Ran Gvili after assassination of terror group's Gaza No. 2, who reportedly rarely emerged aboveground

A senior Hamas military commander described by Israel as "one of the architects" of the October 7 massacre was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Saturday.