ISRAEL has killed a senior Hamas leader, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed.
Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza chief, was the younger brother of the militant group's former leader Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds behind the October 7 2023 attack who was killed by Israeli troops last year.
Speaking to the Israeli parliament on Wednesday, Netanyahu said Mohammed had been "eliminated" alongside a number of other Hamas leaders killed by Israeli strikes.
It comes after one person was killed and another 48 were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on crowds of Palestinians over-running an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Tuesday, according to Gaza's health ministry.
Earlier, UN official Ajith Sunghay had said that 47 Palestinians were injured, mostly by gunfire, at a new aid distribution hub set up by an Israeli and US-backed foundation outside Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah.
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