They lost Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Deif, and yet still count it as a victory, and with good reason: the objective was to destroy Hamas utterly, but now the Biden and Trump administrations have prevented Israel from doing that.
“Hamas confirms death of October 7 mastermind Mohammed Deif,” AFP, January 30, 2025:
Hamas confirmed on Thursday the death of its military chief Mohammed Deif, accused by Israel of being one of the masterminds behind the October 7 attack and whose killing it announced last year.
“The Al-Qassam Brigades announce to our great people the martyrdom of a group of distinguished fighters and heroic commanders,” Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, announced in a video statement, naming “commander Mohammed Deif, chief of staff of the Al-Qassam Brigades (and) commander Marwan Issa, deputy chief of staff” among them.
Israel had accused Deif of being one of the key architects of October 7, along with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed on October 16, 2024.
On August 1 last year, the Israeli military announced it had killed Deif in an air strike in Gaza the month before.
The military said fighter jets had struck Khan Yunis on July 13 and “following an intelligence assessment, it can be confirmed that Mohammed Deif was eliminated in the strike”….
“Deif initiated, planned, and executed the October 7th massacre,” the military added….
Deif is said to have played a key role in the huge network of tunnels built beneath Gaza.
Walter Sieruk says
At last , justice as come down hard of that scheming vicious vicious to dog of Hamas ,who had his sinister part in the many atrocities that the Muslim terrorists of Hamas carried out on October 7th, 2023.
It should always be remembered that those Hamas jihadists committed other heinous and affronts , as mass murders and vile horrific sex assaults and outright rapes as well as kidnapping and other malicious and murderous Islamic terrorist jihad attacks against those peaceful young people at that music festival , on 10 /7/23., are also horrendously heinous cruelly hateful and wickedly mutilating them are Muslim terrorists of the most abhorrent and despicable sort.
Those Hamas jihadists are an outright abomination. Those horrendous atrocities of mass murder and other horrifically wicked that events that occurred on that specific terrible day.
somehistory says
Yes, that *headline* came on the newsfeed yesterday. But, it was not *news,* as Israel had confirmed it weeks ago.
Already, he is worm food being turned to worm debris.
James Lincoln says
Worms gotta eat too, somehistory.
bagsgroove says
Keep sending those hamasses down to hell,where all muslims belong.
Walter Sieruk says
Since now that demonically inspired and sinister scheming jihadist top dog of Hamas is dead, his name fittingly should go to ruin and then be forgotten forever.
As the Bible reads “The name of the wicked shall rot.” Proverbs 10 :7. [K.J.V.]
Peter WF says
I don’t understand the use of the word mastermind. After rebuilding Palestinian infrastructure after the last destruction, they just had too much time on their hands.
Gaza that you never saw before. Filmed it just before Oct 7th. (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1icBL6lLOcM
Search and have a look at the measly amount of economic activity that supports this lifestyle. Has to be a lot of western government debt that is going into Gaza.
There is the old saying – “Idle hands do the devil’s work”. So someone came up with the idea of let’s attack a music festival. There’s one just across the border. Nice and safe, no one is going to have any guns, easy! We can really “entertain” ourselves. And there are little settlements nearby too.
That’s a miss-use of the word “mastermind”. Masterminds are the so and so’s that sit safe in fancy hotels in a safe country complete with fat bank accounts. How do they do that?
Those idle hands are busy again. But for how long?
Hudders. says
YIPPEEEEE!
May many more of his twisted, rapist, murdering islamist kind, join him soon too.
gravenimage says
Hamas confirms that its top dog Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds of Oct. 7, is dead
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And another one bites the dust…
Ralph says
God bless Israel and the IDF. Israel must be allowed to pursue its war of survival. I believe President Trump is squarely in Israel’s corner and will assist them in removing the scourge of Islam from their borders.
PRCS USN (ret) says
Muslim Gunmen Massacre at Least 40 Christians in Nigeria on Palm Sunday
What, finally not calling them “fulani herdsmen”?