IDF Claims To Have Killed Many Militant Chiefs; Reiterates Hamas Using Civilians, Patients As Human Shields

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said that it had killed several senior Hamas operatives in Gaza including Khamis Dababash, former intelligence chief of the group.

IDF claims to have killed many prominent people

IDF spokesperson Real Admiral Daniel Hagari in a statement on Monday said that the IDF has also killed Tahsin Maslam, Hamas' commander of the combat assistance company, and Yakub Ashur, commander of Hamas' anti-tank guided missile array in the group's Khan Younis Brigade. The IDF also said that it had killed a terrorist who had fired at the forces from the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City.

The IDF reiterated that Hamas is using civilians, patients and old-age people as human shields. The group is "using hospitals as command centres", it added.