Ahmed Siam was the commander of the terror group's al-Furqan Brigade. Click here to follow MailOnline's live coverage of the on-going war in GazaIsrael has released footage of an airstrike it claims has killed a Hamas commander who held 1,000 Gazans hostage in a hospital.
Daniel Hagari, IDF spokesperson, wrote on X: 'Ahmed Siam was killed when he hid in an"Alborak" school, where a number of Hamas terrorists who were under his command hid and were killed along with him. Palestinian officials said on Friday at least 25 Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli strike at the school, which was packed with evacuees.
Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the hospital's director, told Al Jazeera that protecting patients was the priority. He said that the hospital being forced to suspend operations after running out of fuel had deadly consequences Ahmed al-Mokhallalati, a senior plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told Reuters: 'It's totally a war zone. It's a totally scary atmosphere here in the hospital.'