A senior member of Hamas’s general security forces was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the military announces, Paralel.Az reports citing The Times of Israel.

According to the IDF, Walid Alsousi was a member of Hamas’s military wing as well as the head of a department in the terror group’s general security forces in the southern Gaza Strip.

The IDF says Alsousi was responsible for building an “intelligence picture” for Hamas, using sources across Gaza.