The Israeli army and Shin Bet claim to have assassinated the commander of Hamas's naval force in northern Gaza.

The Israeli occupation army and the General Security Service (Shin Bet) claimed in a joint statement on Sunday that they assassinated what they described as the commander of Hamas's naval force in the northern Gaza Strip, in an airstrike targeting him last week.

According to the statement, an Air Force fighter jet, based on joint intelligence from the Navy, Military Intelligence, and the Shin Bet, launched an attack last Monday targeting a building in Gaza City.

The statement confirmed that the attack resulted in the martyrdom of Ramzi Ramadan Abdel Ali Saleh, whom it described as the commander of Hamas's naval force in the northern Gaza Strip.

The statement, according to the Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, indicated that Saleh served as a "key information center for the Hamas movement," and that he "promoted and planned military operations against Israeli military forces operating from the sea in recent weeks in the Gaza Strip."

He added that Saleh was killed while he was in the targeted building, accompanied by a number of "other militants."

The statement issued by the occupation army and the Shin Bet stated that the operation also resulted in the killing of two other people who were accompanying Saleh, namely:

Hisham Ayman Attiya Mansour, described as deputy head of a cell in Hamas's mortar unit.

Naseem Mohammed Suleiman Abu Subha, a member of the same unit.