Hamas commander Samir Abu Younis killed in Israeli strike on Khan Younis

Hamas' armed wing said on Sunday that a senior commander who helped plan and oversee the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

The Al-Qassam Brigades identified the commander as Samir Abu Younis, 53, the commander of its Rafah brigade, and said he was killed on Saturday.

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had struck a senior commander in Hamas' armed wing but did not identify him.

Medics said Abu Younis was killed and others were wounded in an airstrike that targeted him in a street in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.