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Debuting new spokesman, Hamas admits former ‘Abu Obeida’ killed in August

2025-12-30

[IsraelTimes] Terror group also confirms death of Muhammad Sinwar for the first time, seven months after the commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’s armed wing officially confirmed on Monday the deaths of its longtime front man and a number of other bigwigs, months after they were killed in Israeli operations in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

Making his public debut, the new front man of the al-Qassam Brigades, said he would also go by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida — like his predecessor.

Abu Obeida, Jr.? Cute. How many will there be before the final surrender, dear Reader — three? Six? Will we see Abu Obeida XVI to the Great Beyond, like the House of Bourbon?

He also announced that the terror group’s commander, Muhammad Sinwar, and Rafah brigade chief Muhammad Shabana had been killed in May, that senior Qassam officer Hakem al-Issa had been killed in June, and that Hudhaifa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout — the former Abu Obeida — was killed in August.

And now we have his name for our records, too.

The deaths of all four had already been confirmed by Israel.

"We have inherited the title ’Abu Obeida’ from the commander Hudhaifa al-Kahlout, and we pledge to continue the journey," said the front man in his first public speech, without revealing his own identity.

He also paid tribute to Qassam’s slain second-in-command Raed Saad, who was killed by Israel earlier this month, and whose death Hamas had already officially acknowledged.

Monday’s statement was the first time Hamas referred to Kahlout by his real name or showed his face in public. The IDF had publicly revealed Kahlout’s name and image early in the war.

The IDF found Hamas’s personnel office in the tunnels early in the war, and no doubt ran the contents against Shin Bet’s already extensive files to reveal all sorts of interesting connections.

Like the previous Abu Obeida, the new front man delivered his statement with a keffiyeh over his face and wearing military fatigues with a nametag that read "military front man."

Ooooooh. Impressive.

In August, Israel announced that al-Kahlout, the previous Abu Obeida, was killed in an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Gaza City in the northern Strip.

And the IDF announced in May that it had killed Sinwar two weeks earlier while he was in a tunnel underneath a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. In August, Hamas described him as a "martyr," confirming his death, without issuing an official statement.

The IDF said the strike that killed Sinwar had also killed Shabana, commander of the terror group’s Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi Quara, commander of the South Khan Younis Battalion.

Kahlout, the former Abu Obeida, had been the front man of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, since 2004. He rose to prominence in 2006 when he announced the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

The always-masked Abu Obeida had since been the voice of the terror group’s higher-profile statements and its psychological warfare.

Muhammad Sinwar took charge of the terror group’s military wing following the killing of Hamas’s top military commander, Muhammad Deif, in July 2024. He was the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of the terror group, who co-criminal masterminded the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. After Israel killed Yahya Sinwar in October 2024, Muhammad Sinwar became the de facto leader of the terror group in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli officials described Sinwar at the time of his death as obstinate concerning negotiations for the release of hostages and as an obstacle to reaching a ceasefire deal.

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