IDF confirms killing Hamas navy commander

The Israel Defense Forces says it has killed the commander of Hamas’s naval forces in Khan Younis, in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip on November 23.

It says Amar Abu Jalalah was killed along with another member of the Hamas naval forces, reports The Times of Israel.

The IDF says Jalalah was “a senior operative in Hamas’s naval forces and was involved in directing several terror attacks by sea that were thwarted.”

The airstrike was carried out following intelligence information provided by the Shin Bet security agency, the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Navy.