ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Updated:

The IDF killed two "central Hamas terrorists" in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening.

The military announced that more details would follow soon.

Army Radio's Doron Kadosh reported that the two targets had been the Northern Gaza Brigade commander and the Gaza City Brigade deputy commander.

FIRE AND smoke billow from a damaged building following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on May 15, 2026.
FIRE AND smoke billow from a damaged building following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on May 15, 2026. (credit: Youssef Alzanoun / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Four killed in Israeli strike, Hamas-run Health Ministry claims

Officials from the Hamas-run Health Ministry claimed that at least four people were killed in the strike on Gaza City, Reuters cited.

Both targets were part of Hamas' leadership, but neither was a candidate to inherit the position of Hamas military chief from Mohammed Ouda, who was assassinated by the IDF on Tuesday night, only 11 days after his predecessor, Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, had also been assassinated. 

Ouda joined Haddad, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Mohammed Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and other top Hamas officials who Israel has assassinated since October 7, 2023.

This is a developing story.

Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.