US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said that Hamas deputy military commander Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike.

Israeli media sources have reported that Issa was killed in a strike on a tunnel complex under the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza last week.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian group, which controls Gaza, has not officially commented on reports of his death.

Issa would be Hamas’s most senior leader to die since the war began on 7th October. He had been linked directly to the decision to attack Israel in October last year and was considered one of Israel’s most-wanted men.