Israel hits car in Gaza City killing head of Hamas’ reinforcement headquarters and 3 others

(13 Dec 2025)
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++CONTAINS IMAGES OF DEAD PEOPLE and DRIED BLOOD++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City - 13 December 2025
1. Various of dead bodies are wrapped on the ground, people console each other
2. Ambulance carrying bodies parks by the hospital morgue entrance
3. Various of medics opening the ambulance door and carrying bodies to the morgue ++PART MUTE++
4. Various of wrapped bodies inside the morgue
5. Various of people crouching over bodies
6. Various of people gathering outside morque surrounding bodies
6. Various of destroyed car destroyed by Israeli airstrike
7. Various of blood on the ground
8. Various of destroyed car
9. Various of pool of blood next to the targeted car ++PART MUTE++

STORYLINE:
An Israeli strike hit a car in west Gaza City, outside the designated “yellow line,” killing Ra’ed Sa’d, whom Israel identified as the head of Hamas’s reinforcement headquarters, according to a joint statement by the Israeli prime minister’s office and the defense ministry.

At least three other people were killed and three wounded in the strike, Gaza health officials said.

The statement said the strike was carried out in response to a Hamas improvised explosive device that wounded Israeli forces earlier on Saturday in the Yellow Zone of the Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yisrael Katz ordered the killing of Sa’d “to thwart further attacks,” it said.

Israel said Sa’d was “one of the architects” of the Oct. 7 attack, led by Hamas and was involved in efforts to rebuild the group’s military capabilities.

At Shifa Hospital, an Associated Press journalist saw the blood-stained bodies and wounded victims brought into the emergency ward as medics rushed to treat them.

The Gaza Health Ministry said that since the ceasefire went into effect on Oct. 11, at least 386 people have been killed and 1,018 wounded.

The ministry said the overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has risen to at least 70,654, with 171,095 wounded.


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