The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Sunday the martyrdom of Samir Abu Younis, a member of its military council and commander of the Rafah Brigade, in an Israeli assassination operation on Saturday evening in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
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it said: “With the highest expressions of pride and confidence in God’s imminent victory, the Qassam Brigades announce the martyrdom of the great commander Samir Mahmoud Abu Younis, member of the General Military Council and commander of the Rafah Brigade, who was martyred on Saturday evening as a result of a cowardly assassination operation, to go to his Lord as a martyr after a blessed journey of jihad and giving.”
The statement added: “Our martyr was one of the first generation of Qassam, as he joined the Qassam Brigades in 1991, and was arrested in the enemy’s prisons. He also participated in many qualitative operations and confronting the enemy’s incursions. He was one of the active leaders during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, and he progressed through the leadership positions in the Rafah Brigade, until he led the Western Battalion, succeeding the martyred commander Mahmoud Hamdan, and then the Rafah Brigade, succeeding the martyred commander Nael Abu Obeid. He was one of the most important leaders who participated in planning and supervising the October 7 attack.”
For its part, the Israeli army announced on Sunday that its forces had targeted a senior commander in Hamas's military wing. In a statement released early Sunday, it said: "A short while ago, the IDF and the Shin Bet targeted a senior terrorist in Hamas's military wing."
Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for the Civil Defense in Gaza, stated that the agency received the body of Younis, 53, noting that two people were injured in the raid that took place in the southern Gaza Strip.
The funeral procession started from Nasser Hospital in the city and proceeded to the city cemetery, where he was laid to rest, amidst a large public turnout.
medical sources announced the death of Abdullah Hassouna (28 years old), who succumbed to his injuries sustained when occupation aircraft targeted a tent for displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, several days ago. Meanwhile, the occupation forces continued to violate the ceasefire agreement, and military vehicles that had penetrated into the “yellow line” areas east of Gaza City targeted several areas in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shuja’iya neighborhoods with bursts of heavy bullets. Explosions were heard as a result of intermittent shelling that affected areas northeast of the city and others in the north of the Strip.
Israeli artillery also targeted areas east of Deir al-Balah and al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip. Similar attacks also hit areas south of Khan Yunis, others east of the city, specifically behind the “yellow line”, and others west of Rafah in the far south of the Strip.
This came at a time when Palestinian families and a crowd of citizens mourned the bodies of 69 martyrs, whose bodies were recovered by civil defense teams from under the rubble of homes and buildings destroyed by the Israeli occupation in several areas in the northern Gaza Strip, including the Jabalia camp and the town of Beit Lahia.
In a somber scene, mourners carried the skeletal remains of the victims to the Martyrs' Cemetery in northern Gaza for burial. The bodies belonged to victims of previous Israeli attacks that targeted homes belonging to the Abu Warda, Nabhan, Yazji, Masoud, and Dibs families.
There are still large numbers of victims under the rubble and in remote areas under occupation control, and it is difficult to reach them due to limited resources and the security situation.
Hamas messages
Because of Israel’s failure to abide by the terms of the ceasefire agreement, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, Khalil al-Hayya , sent messages to Arab and Islamic countries, urging them to take urgent action to address the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, given the continued siege, shortages of aid and shelter supplies, and the increasing suffering of the population with the arrival of winter.
The messages included a review of the humanitarian situation in the sector, where Al-Hayya stressed that what Gaza is witnessing “is no longer just an emergency relief crisis or a natural consequence of war, but a reality in which policies of starvation and systematic destruction of the foundations of life are intertwined with restrictions imposed on the entry of aid and materials necessary for recovery.”
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