JERUSALEM

The Israeli army and Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced Thursday that they had killed Omar Abu Jallal, the commander of the Hamas naval force in Khan Yunis.

The airstrike also targeted another member of Hamas’s naval force, a military statement said.

There has been no comment from Hamas on the matter.

Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian group Hamas launched a cross-border attack on Oct. 7.

The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has soared to 14,854, the government media office in the blockaded enclave said Thursday.

The victims include 6,150 children and over 4,000 women, while more than 36,000 people have been injured, it said.

Around 7,000 people remain unaccounted for, including more than 4,700 children, it added.

The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, is around 1,200, according to official figures.

*Writing by Ziad Aslan in Ankara