The "Israeli" army stated that it targeted the commander of the Beit Hanoun Battalion, affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, with bullets from the occupying forces in a tunnel in the Jabaliya area in northern Gaza.

The Israeli Occupation army alleged that Fayyad "Hussam Fayyad was responsible for many anti-tank missile attacks as well as many mortar shell attacks on border communities in northern Gaza."

It claimed that Fayyad was targeted in a "tunnel during a joint operation carried out by the 98th Division, Special Forces of the Air Force, and the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit."