Al Jazeera has reported that the military wing of Hamas announced that Samir Mahmoud Abu Younis, commander of the Rafah Brigade and a member of the movement’s military council, was martyred in an Israeli regime airstrike in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
According to Al Jazeera, the Al-Qassam Brigades stated that Abu Younis joined the movement in 1991 and played a significant role in planning and overseeing Hamas’s large-scale military operation against Zionist regime on October 7, 2023.
According to reports, three Palestinians, including Abu Younis, were martyred and nine others injured in Israeli regime attacks on various parts of Gaza on Saturday.