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Israel says one of last Hamas leaders killed in Gaza, releases aerial footage of strike

The Israeli military killed Izz al-Din Kassab, one of the last senior Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip, it said on Friday. Kassab was a member of the Islamist terrorist organization's politburo and responsible for relations with other extremist groups in the coastal strip. The military released an aerial video allegedly showing the rocket attack on his vehicle. One of his colleagues was also killed. Hamas confirmed the deaths of the two men. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, which was trigge