Israel said Wednesday it had killed Mohammed Odeh, Hamas’s newly appointed armed wing chief, in an operation in Gaza on Tuesday. A family statement said he was killed along with his wife and son. Gaza health officials said six people, including at least one woman, were killed and more than 20 others wounded in the same Israeli strike, which destroyed an upper floor of an apartment building in Gaza City. Since last October’s so-called U.S.-brokered ceasefire, Israel has killed some 900 Palestinians in Gaza. This is a resident of Gaza City describing Israel’s airstrike on Tuesday.
Gaza City resident: “There was a sudden airstrike by Israeli warplanes. It was a surprise. They hit a rooftop apartment in a building with three missiles, and they weren’t simple missiles, they were heavy ones. … There is no ceasefire. Day and night, there is shelling. The shelling is constant here. They say there is a ceasefire, but there is no ceasefire for us. This is the Eid atmosphere, as you can see. It is Eid now.”











