On Friday, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari clarified that “there are increasing signs that we succeeded in the elimination of Mohammed Deif. Rafa’a Salameh was certainly eliminated; Mohammed Deif and Salameh sat side-by-side during the strike. Hamas is hiding what happened to Deif.”
In an Arabic-language recording, subtitled in Hebrew, between a Gazan man and woman, the two can be heard discussing the Israeli strike, with the woman asking whether the reports that Deif is dead are true, and the man answering in the affirmative. The woman then says, “May Allah help that it soon be the same for [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar.”