Israel has killed senior Hamas military figure Raad Saad in an airstrike on Gaza’s Rashid coastal road, in a move both sides frame as a major test of the new US‑brokered ceasefire. Saad, long described by Israeli officials as Hamas’s number‑two and head of its weapons‑manufacturing network, was reportedly one of the architects of the October 7, 2023 attacks and a repeated target of failed Israeli assassination attempts over two decades.