Israel has killed senior Hamas military figure Raad Saad in an airstrike on Gaza’s Rashid coastal road, in a move both sides frame as a major test of the new US‑brokered ceasefire. Saad, long described by Israeli officials as Hamas’s number‑two and head of its weapons‑manufacturing network,

The fragile Gaza ceasefire is now hanging by a thread after an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza coast killed Raad Saad, Hamas’s weapons chief marking the highest-profile assassination since the October truce.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir vows that the military will not allow Israel’s enemies to “build up” their capabilities, after an airstrike yesterday killed top Hamas official Raad Saad, who headed the terror group’s weapons manufacturing headquarters.