58-year-old Mohamed Deif has survived seven Israeli assassination attempts, the most recent in 2021. He’s been at the top of Israel's most wanted list for decades and is believed to be one of the chief architects of the October 7 Hamas incursion into Israel.
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00:00Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there's no absolute certainty that
00:07the second-in-command of Hamas was killed in an airstrike in southern Gaza on Saturday.
00:13Israel said it had targeted Mohammed Daif in the massive strike on al-Mawasi, an area
00:18the Israeli military had declared a safe zone.
00:22Local health officials said at least 90 people, including children, were killed.
00:27Hamas rejected the claim that Daif was in the area at the time of the strike.
00:31But Netanyahu said that cracks were starting to appear in the Hamas leadership as it faced
00:36an increasingly intense Israeli military response.
00:41Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel
00:45and killed some 1,200 people on October 7.
00:50Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 38,000
00:55people in Gaza.