Posted on 12/13/25
| News Source: JPost
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday night said they had ordered the assassination of number two Hamas official Ra'ad Sa'ad earlier in the day due to his leadership over the group's post-war rearmament activities.
In particular, they referred to an ambush of IDF soldiers using an improvised explosive device earlier in the day.
IDF sources also gave other specific examples of soldiers wounded by IEDs planted at Sa'ad's direction in recent weeks.
Sa'ad was also one of the few remaining living Hamas officials directly involved in planning the October 7 invasion and slaughter of around 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.
The Shin Bet and the IDF said they received intelligence in real-time that he was making a rare above-ground trip in the western part of Gaza City, and acted promptly to kill him before the opportunity was lost.