After the extermination of the Sinuar brothers by the armed forces of Israelits military leader Hamas He is now IZ al-Din al-Handad, also known as Abu Souhaib, according to the US newspapers Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
The new head of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip, maintains an extremely low profile, speaks Hebrew, has photographs of Israeli hostages on his cellphone and is Israel’s next target at a critical juncture of war.
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing Arabs and Israeli officials, as well as a former hostage who met Al-Handad while being a prisoner of Hamas, her new military leader had an active role in planning and performing the attack on the southern Israel. Israel.
A Hamas official told Wall Street Journal that the 55 -year -old Hadad is known as’Ghost [ταξιαρχιών] al-Casham»Because of the low profile it maintains.
The ‘profile’ and the character of
In fact, has survived several murder attempts attempted by the Israeli forces and has been awarded $ 750,000. His two sons were killed this year During the war in the Gaza Strip.
One of the recently liberated Israeli hostages said that met Hadad five times in Gaza And he even slept in the same apartment with him.
At their first meeting in March 2024, Hadad insisted on talking to Hebrew and told Homer and others who were with him that he was responsible for all prisoners. Handad then showed them photos of hostages on his phone.
The former Israeli hostage stressed that Handad was worried about how the prisoners would describe their treatment. When Homer told him that some of their guards are better than others, Hadad replied: “So is life. There are good people and there are bad people».
At that time, Handad seemed relatively kind, asking Homer if he needed something. However, at a later meeting in January 2025, Handad was cooler, holding his face covered while complaining of “Israeli war crimes”.
In the end it turned out that He had just discovered that one of his sons had been killed by an Israeli attack.
After the extermination of Ismail Haniyehis Chicken and his brother’s, Mohammed SinuarIsrael’s defense minister announced that “the next IDF targets are on the one hand by IZ al-Din al-Hadad, who is in Gaza and Halil al-Haya abroad”
Hadad went up to the hierarchy of Al-Casham Brigades of Hamas’s military wing and eventually took over as head, Arab and Israeli officials said in the Wall Street Journal.
“He wants honest truce deal with Israel”
Arab secret service officials and two Hamas officials told the Journal that Handad has proven more realistic than the Sinuar brothers.
It was Handad who pressed Mohammed Sinuar to accept a ceasefire agreement in January 2025, which provided for the liberation of dozens of Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners holding Israel.
It is also said that he was in favor of liberating more hostages to maintain the truce, although it eventually collapsed in March 2025. Sources of information emphasize, describe Hadad as more receptive to Israel’s demand to disarm Hamas as part of a two -way process for the end of the war.
On the other side, New York Times support in today’s (04.07.2025) post How Hadad is ultra of a complete interruption of hostility and withdrawal of military forces of Israel, that will be accompanied by the liberation of all of hostage still in the Gaza Strip.
Specifically, the New York Times reported that al-Hadad recently said that Whether Hamas will come up with an “honest deal” with Israel or the conflict will turn into a “war or martyrdom war”.