Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have incurred yet another bloody Eid holiday for the sixth time in a row at the hands of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

At least nine people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a number of Israeli airstrikes that targeted residential buildings, and crowded market places across the besieged enclave on Tuesday, May 26.

The new general commander of the Al-Qassam brigades is among the fatalities

The IOF announced that it assassinated Mohammed Odeh, who was reportedly appointed last week as the new head of Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam brigades, in one of the assaults launched on Tuesday.

Hamas confirmed in a statement issued on Wednesday, May 27, that Odeh was killed alongside his wife and two of his children in an aerial Israeli attack that targeted an apartment in Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

The targeted assassination of Odeh came eleven days after his predecessor, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, was assassinated by Israel in the same way, and in the same neighborhood.

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Although Netanyahu’s government claimed to have eliminated the last mastermind of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood by assassinating Al-Haddad, it then alleged that Odeh was also one of Al-Qassam’s top commanders who led the October 7 attacks.

“The fourth commander of the Hamas terror organization’s military wing in Gaza was eliminated yesterday and sent to meet his partners in the depths of hell,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X.

“We pledged to eliminate everyone who led the October 7 massacre, and that is what we will do,” Katz added. “They are all marked for death, everywhere,” he threatened.

Analysts, however, suggest that Israel is using the targeting of Al-Qassam’s leaders, who were allegedly involved in October 7 attacks, as a pretext to continue attacking densely-populated civilian areas as part of its ethnic-cleansing policy.

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