ISRAELI MILITARY KILLS HAMAS COMMANDER

JERUSALEM, NOVEMBER 15 /SRNA/ - The Israeli military announced that Samir Mahmoud Hassan Abu Yunis, a commander of the militant group Hamas, had been killed.

The statement said that the Hamas commander was killed shortly after midnight in an airstrike in southern Gaza.

It added that he had been working to strengthen Hamas and overseeing the group's plans for expansion and the carrying out of terrorist attacks.

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

The military said it had also targeted other Hamas militants but provided no further details, the AP reported.

Hamas confirmed in a statement the killing of Samir Mahmoud Hassan Abu Yunis, commander of the Rafah Brigade. It added that he would be buried later today.