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Israeli Army Radio Says Attempt To Assassinate Hamas Leader Ali Al-ʿAmūdī Failed
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Israeli Army Radio said the Ali al-ʿAmūdī assassination attempt apparently failed. The strike targeted an apartment in western Gaza City; Palestinian medics reported fatalities.
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Attempted strike on al-‘Amoudi
The Israeli army radio said on Saturday evening that the attempt to assassinate Ali Al-Omoudi, a prominent Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, “apparently failed.” Al Jazeera reported that medical sources said five Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli strike that targeted an apartment building in western Gaza City at dawn today. Israeli media and Israeli security sources described the target as Ali al-ʿAmūdī, whom they regard as the “Caliph of the Snwar” in Gaza, while the results and his fate remained unclear.
Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation said “the army tried to liquidate Ali Al-Omoudi, who is regarded as the actual leader of Hamas in Gaza, during a night raid.” Al Jazeera said sources at Gaza hospitals reported that the number of martyrs from Israeli raids on several areas of the enclave since dawn today has reached eight.
Competing death tolls
Al Jazeera said a Palestinian medical source identified the martyrs as Maysaa Abu Dawood (55) and her daughter Maria (36), along with Yasmin and Hiloum Al-Bobo (48 and 23) and Bilal Ali Odeh (20). Al Jazeera also said Hamas condemned the targeting of the Al-Osalah Building, saying the mother and daughter “are Christians among our people” who were among the victims of the airstrike.
Euronews said Israeli reports described the operation as targeting a residential building in Gaza City while the results of the operation or his fate remained unclear, and it said security sources estimated his chances of survival as “very low.” Al Jazeera reported that Hamas urged intermediaries and the American administration to “bear responsibility for these serious violations, and take serious positions to curb the aggression.”
Hamas leadership and ceasefire
Israeli sources described Ali al-ʿAmūdī as a central figure in the new leadership of Hamas in Gaza, and they said he spent about 20 years in Israeli prisons before his release in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal. Al Jazeera said Hamas sources to Anadolu Agency reported that Al-Omoudi held the position of head of the Media Department before the conduct of Israel’s war of annihilation on October 8, 2023, and that after the assassination of Sinwar and his deputy Roohi Mushtaha in 2024, Al-Omoudi held the position of Hamas’ deputy leader in Gaza.
Euronews said the Israeli army announced the killing of two leaders in the military wing of the Jihad of Islam in airstrikes on the city of Gaza on Friday, naming Aḥmad Muḥammad Ḥarb al-Rimlāwī and Mūnir Ibrāhīm al-Miṣrī. Al Jazeera said the attack came despite the ceasefire agreement that went into effect in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, while Israel continued throughout the following year to carry out raids, fire, and military operations in various parts of the Strip.