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Israel kills a top Hamas commander in Gaza

ABC News Australia •
November 15, 2026 • 10:33 AM
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An Israeli air strike has killed a senior Hamas military commander in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Israel says.

Israel kills a top Hamas commander in Gaza

Israel has killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza. ( Amir Cohen via Reuters )

An Israeli air strike has killed a senior Hamas military commander at Khan Younis in Gaza, Israel says.

Bahrain says it has intercepted and destroyed several Iranian aerial attacks.

Meanwhile, Yemen's Houthis say an air strike on the capital wounded two women and two children.

Israeli forces killed a top commander of the militant Hamas group in an overnight air strike on southern Gaza, Israel said Sunday.

Meanwhile, Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed that it struck a radar system at an American helicopter base in Bahrain.

The US military command did not immediately comment on the claim.

Jordan sentenced three men to death for a deadly shooting at a Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Karak last month, state-run Al Mamlaka TV said.

In Yemen, health authorities with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said an air strike on Sanaa wounded two women and two children, and blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack, without offering evidence.

Gunmen opened fire inside a church in Jordan's Karak region in October. ( Reuters )

Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed early on Sunday that it struck a radar system at an American helicopter base in Bahrain, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

The development comes after CENTCOM said on Friday that it intercepted two Iranian drones headed toward Bahrain and denied Iran's claim at the time that it had struck a US early-warning radar system there.

Bahrain's military said on Sunday that its air defence systems had intercepted a number of Iranian projectiles before they reached their targets.

Earlier Sunday, Bahrain's Interior Ministry issued two nationwide alerts warning of a threat, the first such alerts since September. It did not specify the nature of the threat or say whether anything had been hit.

"Iran continues its systematic hostile approach through its sinful attacks targeting the Kingdom of Bahrain," the statement added.

Israel said it killed a top Hamas commander in an air strike on southern Gaza.

A Hamas statement confirmed the killing of Samir Mahmoud Hassan Abu Younis, commander of the group's Rafah Brigade, and said a funeral would be held for him later in the day.

The Israeli military said Abu Younis was killed in a strike just after midnight on Saturday.

It said he had been working to build up Hamas and directing plans "to advance and carry out terror attacks".

The aftermath of Israeli strikes and gunfire in Gaza City in September. ( Reuters: Dawoud Abu Alkas )

Two months earlier, his predecessor was killed in an Israeli strike.

Jordan's State Security Court on Sunday sentenced three men to death for a deadly shooting at a Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Karak last month, state-run Al Mamlaka TV said.

The men were charged with "carrying out terrorist acts".

The October 23 attack was one of the deadliest on Jordan's Christian minority in decades, with nine people killed and dozens more wounded.

The attackers targeted mourners attending a funeral at a church in Karak.

The three defendants, identified by authorities as two brothers and their brother-in-law, were arrested three days after the attack following a shootout with security forces in Karak.

Jordanian authorities described the men as followers of an extremist ideology but said they were not affiliated with an organised group.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Houthi health officials say an air strike on Sanaa, Yemen's capital, wounded two women and two children.

The strike hit a residential neighbourhood in north-eastern Sanaa early on Sunday, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said in a statement, without providing further details or saying what was hit in the strike.

It said the wounded were taken to the Muayyad Hospital for treatment.

Ministry spokesman Anees al-Asbahi blamed Saudi Arabia for the strike.

There was no immediate comment from the kingdom.

A Saudi military spokesman, meanwhile, said air defence systems intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis early on Sunday toward Riyadh, the Saudi capital.

Two drones were also shot down over the Saudi oil-rich Eastern Region, said the spokesman, Major General Turki al-Maliki.

The air strike in Sanaa and the missile and drone attacks in Saudi Arabia were the latest in a month-long escalation between the Houthis and the kingdom that has seen a return of fighting in Yemen's civil war after more than four years of ceasefire.

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