Israel announced Wednesday that Muhammad Abu Alwan, the head of Hamas’s Finance Department, was eliminated in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the elimination in a joint statement,

Even Netanyahu’s opponent in October's Knesset elections, Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot, defended Israel’s actions in dealing with the terrorists that threaten the Jewish state. Macron’s remarks were “extremely divorced from the reality on the ground,” he said on social media.