Hamas political bureau member Salah al-Bardawil was eliminated overnight in an IDF strike in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.

The Hamas terror organization issued a statement early Sunday morning confirming his death.

Bardawil was the head of Hamas’s communications department and one of its main spokesmen in Arab media outlets.

He was the ninth of 17 members of Hamas’s political bureau to be killed in IDF strikes since the beginning of the war. Six others, including Khalil al-Hayya, left the Gaza Strip before the war.

Bardawil was the second member of Hamas’s political bureau to be killed since the start of Operation Strength and Sword, following last week’s elimination of Issam al-Daalis, a former advisor to slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who served as Hamas’s ‘prime minister.’

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)