IDF takes out 3 top Hamas leaders

(Gaza) An Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza has killed three senior Hamas military commanders. Mohammed Abu Shamala, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar were killed in the attack near the southern town of Rafah. All three were instrumental to operations including smuggling, tunnel construction and capturing the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006:

• Raed Attar was the most senior commander in the south and was seen taking Mr Shalit from the car and handing him over to the Egyptians during the prisoner exchange in 2011

•  Mohammed Shamala was the Rafah commander said to have been responsible for planning the capture of Mr Shalit

•  Mohammed Barhoum was a senior local commander

Personally, I'll take news of their demise with a pinch of salt, seeing as how the information came from Hamas, they only know how to lie and they know that Israel has no problem wiping out whole blocks in which to cut of the heads of the hydra that is Islamic terrorism.