Fayek Al-Mabhouh, head of police operations in Gaza (social networking sites)

Sources told Al Jazeera that the Israeli occupation killed, on Monday, the head of police operations in Gaza, Brigadier Fayek Al-Mabhouh, in an operation at Al-Shifa Hospital.

The sources stated that Brigadier General Al-Mabhouh coordinated with the tribes and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to bring and secure aid into northern Gaza.

The Israeli army claimed that it killed the head of the Operations Directorate of the Internal Security Service of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Fayeq Al-Mabhouh, inside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, while the movement did not immediately respond.

The army said, in a statement, after receiving intelligence information from the General Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Military Intelligence Authority (Aman) about the presence of a number of Hamas officials in Al-Shifa Hospital, and as part of the army forces and the General Security Agency’s raid on the place, Al-Mabhouh, head of the Operations Directorate, was eliminated. Of the Hamas Internal Security Service.

He added that Al-Mabhouh was killed during an exchange of fire with Israeli forces, as he was armed and hiding inside the hospital complex, the statement said.

The occupation also claimed that Al-Mabhouh was responsible for coordination between Hamas agencies in the Gaza Strip, and that many weapons were found in the room next to the place of his assassination.

Since dawn today, an Israeli army force has continued to storm the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, despite the presence of thousands of sick, wounded, and displaced people inside it, for the second time since the start of the devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

The Israeli war on Gaza left tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

Which led to Israel appearing, for the first time since its establishment in 1948, before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”

Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia