The spokesperson for the Israeli occupation army revealed the name and photo of the officer who was killed during a secret special military operation in the Gaza Strip in November 2018, which Tel Aviv refused at the time to reveal its details.
This spokesman said that the officer, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, was called Mahmoud Khair El-Din, and he was 41 years old when he was killed.
He added that he was a commander in the intelligence agency's special operations system.
It is noteworthy that the Al-Jazeera program "What is Hidden is Greater" revealed at the end of 2019 the failure of the secret operation of the most important Israeli special unit and the infringement of "Sirit Matkal" in planting a unit of spying on resistance communications in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.
Leaving the cell also revealed what the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) considered an intelligence treasure that it managed to control.
The head of this Israeli unit was killed after Hamas discovered the infiltration of the cell, forcing Tel Aviv to send a helicopter to rescue the cell and retrieve the body of its leader.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said that the occupation's announcement of the name of the special forces officer who was killed by the Al-Qassam Brigades (affiliated with the movement) in the battle of "the edge of the sword" confirms the intelligence ability of Al-Qassam.
Qassem confirmed that the officer's name and details were known shortly after the special unit was exposed and its commander was killed, "which forced the leadership of the enemy army to remove all the unit's crew from service."
This security operation - according to what the Hamas spokesman confirmed - is evidence of the ability of the intelligence mind of the resistance to confront and defeat the Zionist security system, as Qassem put it.