Netanyahu officially admits responsibility for the assassination of Al-Qassam leader Mazen Faqha in 2017

The head of the Israeli occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, admitted for the first time responsibility for the assassination of the leader in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, the released prisoner Mazen Faqha in Gaza City in 2017. According to media sources, Netanyahu's admission came as part of responses he submitted to the Israeli State Comptroller regarding his government's actions against the Hamas movement in Gaza.

Journalistic sources stated on Thursday that Netanyahu revealed for the first time in his responses to critics that Tel Aviv was responsible for assassinating Mazen Faqha, a prominent leader in the military wing of Hamas in 2017. The sources clarified that the assassination was carried out by the Palestinian Ashraf Abu Leila, whom Hamas later executed on charges of espionage and carrying out the operation.

Mazen Faqha was one of the most prominent leaders of the "Al-Qassam Brigades" in the occupied West Bank before his arrest. He was released as part of a prisoner exchange deal in 2011 and was then deported to the Gaza Strip, where he continued his leadership activities.

Faqha was assassinated in front of his home on March 24, 2017, in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City. The Israeli occupation did not officially claim responsibility for the operation at the time, but the Palestinian Ministry of Interior in Gaza confirmed then that the assassination was carried out by collaborators with the occupation.

On May 26, 2017, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza carried out the execution sentences against the three convicted individuals (two by hanging and the third by firing squad) involved in Faqha's assassination, after investigations proved their direct involvement with the occupation's intelligence agencies.

Netanyahu reveals for the first time in his responses to critics that Tel Aviv was responsible for assassinating Mazen Faqha, a prominent leader in the military wing of Hamas in 2017.