India, July 6 -- The Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday said it had eliminated Hamas' naval commander Ramzi Ramadan Abd Ali Saleh in northern Gaza, along with other members of the Palestinian militant group.

Israel said that Ali Saleh was a significant source of knowledge within Hamas, adding that he was also recently involved in "planning and advancing maritime terrorist attacks against IDF troops operating in Gaza".

Along with the Hamas naval force commander, the Israeli forces also took out the deputy head of the militant group's mortar shell array cell, Hisham Ayman Atiya Mansour. A terrorist of the array cell, Nissim Muhammad Suleiman Abu Sabha, was also eliminated in the Israeli strike.

The naval commander of Hamas was killed in th...