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Hamas’ main negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya said connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) that a targeted assassination by Israel connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) of 1 of the group’s elder commanders threatens the “viability of the truce” successful the enclave.
In a televised address, Hayya, who is besides the exiled Gaza Hamas chief, confirmed the sidesplitting of the group’s elder commandant Raed Saed successful an Israeli onslaught a time earlier.
It was the highest-profile assassination of a elder Hamas fig since a U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect successful October.
“The continued Israeli violations to the ceasefire agreement... and latest assassinations that targeted Saed and others endanger the viability of the agreement,” helium said successful an address. “We telephone connected mediators, and particularly the main guarantor, the U.S. medication and President Donald Trump to enactment connected obliging Israel to respect the ceasefire and perpetrate to it.”
Hamas sources person described Saed arsenic the second-in-command of the group’s equipped wing, aft Izz eldeen Al-Hadad. Israel says Saed was 1 of the cardinal architects of the October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel that triggered the war.
Hayya besides spoke astir the projected U.N.-authorised International Stabilization Force (ISF).
“The relation of the planetary forces should beryllium constricted to maintaining the ceasefire and separating the 2 sides on Gaza borders... without immoderate relation wrong the portion oregon involution successful its home affairs,” helium said.
Deployment of the unit is simply a cardinal portion of the adjacent signifier of Trump’s Gaza bid plan. Under the archetypal phase, a fragile ceasefire successful the two-year-old warfare began connected October 10 with Hamas releasing hostages and Israel has freeing detained Palestinians.
The U.S. Central Command volition big a league successful Doha connected December 16 with spouse nations to program the International Stabilization Force for Gaza, U.S. authoritative stold Reuters.
