An Israeli airstrike killed a senior Hamas official who helped the terror group assemble its arsenal of rockets that continue to strike targets inside Israel, officials said Wednesday.
Mohsen Abu Zina, the target of the Israel Defense Forces fighter jet attack, was the head of weapons and industries for Hamas, IDF officials said.
“Mohsen Abu Zina served as one of Hamas’ leading weapons developers and was an expert in developing strategic weapons and rockets used by Hamas terrorists,” the IDF said Wednesday on its Telegram messaging site.
The IDF said Hamas has fired more than 7,000 rockets into Israel since Oct. 7, when militants launched a massacre in southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians.
Since then, the IDF has carried out retaliatory airstrikes and a ground invasion of Gaza in which more than 10,000 people have been killed, according to the Palestinian enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry.
IDF officials also identified a Hamas terrorist cell inside Gaza that had planned to fire anti-tank missiles at their forces.
“The troops directed an aircraft that struck the cell and killed several terrorists,” IDF officials said Wednesday.
