{"id":186638,"date":"2025-09-22T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=186638"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:57:01","slug":"israel-kills-deputy-head-of-hamas-naval-police-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/186638\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel kills deputy head of Hamas naval police in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Israel Defense Forces announced the killing of the deputy commander of Hamas&rsquo;s naval police in the Gaza Strip, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/deputy-hamas-naval-police-chief-who-participated-in-oct-7-killed-in-gaza-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times of Israel<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Israeli Air Force killed Iyad Abu Yousef, deputy commander of the Hamas naval police, with a precision strike on the central camps in the Gaza Strip,&rdquo; reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Israeli military, Yousef &ldquo;participated in the invasion of Israel and the brutal massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023.&rdquo; Furthermore, the military added: &ldquo;During the fighting in the Gaza Strip, he planned ambushes against Israeli forces and participated in ensuring the security of the terrorist organization&rsquo;s assets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said Yousef&rsquo;s elimination &ldquo;constitutes a significant blow to the capabilities of Hamas&rsquo;s naval police, which is used for gathering intelligence on our forces and enforcing maritime control for the organization&rsquo;s military wing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel Defense Forces announced the killing of the deputy commander of Hamas&rsquo;s naval police in the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reports. &ldquo;The Israeli Air Force killed Iyad Abu Yousef, deputy commander of the Hamas naval police, with a precision strike on the central camps in the Gaza Strip,&rdquo; reads the statement. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":186633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186639,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186638\/revisions\/186639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}