'Israel' claims killing Hamas' finance chief
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) claimed Friday that it killed the Director of Finance in Hamas' military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, and the aide to deputy commander of the military wing, Marwan Issa, who was also killed by an 'Israeli' airstrike earlier last year.
The statement said he was killed on Tuesday, June 17, in the central Gaza Strip.
'Abu Shumala was responsible for all of the Hamas' military wing' finances in the Gaza Strip…he planned and oversaw the military wing's budget during the war and implemented it,' the IOF statement claimed.
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