A prominent leader in the Hamas movement revealed that Ali Al-Amoudi, head of the movement’s political bureau in the Gaza Strip, was injured in the Israeli attack that targeted him in a residential apartment in the Al-Mina area, west of Gaza City, on October 3, during which five Palestinians were killed.
The leader, who preferred to remain anonymous, said during an interview late on Friday evening with Asharq Al-Awsat that Al-Amoudi was moderately injured and had broken limbs as a result of the raid that targeted him, stressing that he was inside the residential apartment when it was targeted, and fortunately he was in a side place in the apartment, which led to his survival.
The leader did not disclose any other details about the incident, only confirming that Al-Amoudi was in good health after the attack, and that he was receiving treatment in a safe place.
This is the first acknowledgment from a Hamas official confirming that Al-Amoudi was in the apartment at the time of the attack, as several sources who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat in recent days denied his presence, confirming that he survived.
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Three sources from the movement said, a few days ago, that an urgent intelligence report reached Al-Amoudi, about 3 hours before the attack, prompting him to leave the place where he was located, but this report did not contain confirmation that there was an operation that would directly target him personally.
The sources explained at the time in separate, identical statements that Al-Amoudi was in the targeted residential apartment, and that he took what was stated in the intelligence report seriously. So he left the place to another safe place.
The sources indicated at the time that two members of the “Air Force” of the “Al-Qassam Brigades,” the armed wing of “Hamas,” monitored an intense flight of two Israeli intelligence drones known for their dangerous techniques by the Palestinian security authorities during the day of October 2nd, and that they were circling in the vicinity of the building and the port area west of Gaza City.
According to the sources, the drones that were flying in the region’s airspace carried dangerous intelligence techniques, relying on artificial intelligence, and other techniques that help in identifying targets accurately, indicating that the two elements who were able to monitor them clearly and over the course of hours expected an assassination of a major figure present in the region. Therefore, they went to higher security authorities to inform them of the urgent report, which reached the authorities responsible for protecting senior figures in Hamas, including Al-Amoudi.
The sources explained that when the only person responsible for Al-Amoudi’s security, who knew the location, received the report, he immediately went to him and informed him of what was happening, and the Hamas leader took an immediate decision to leave the residential apartment without delay or postponement, suggesting that he was the target himself. This was later revealed after about an hour or more by targeting the apartment with dangerous guided missiles, as well as with one or two suicide planes.
The prominent leader who revealed Al-Amoudi's injury refused to confirm or deny this information, but merely confirmed that there are intelligence reports constantly transmitted to leaders at various levels by field activists who follow the movements of Israeli drones in the skies of the Gaza Strip, which may indicate the possibility of assassinations occurring, or specific operations in certain places over which the planes fly.
Asharq Al-Awsat tried to communicate with its sources about confirmations of Al-Amoudi’s injury, and that he did not leave the apartment before it was bombed, without obtaining a response from two of the sources, while a third said that his information was obtained through an internal report, without providing further clarifications.
Hamas may have tried to hide information about Al-Amoudi’s injury, even from its leaders, factional figures, and others, as part of the intelligence war it is leading to demonstrate Israel’s failure in any attacks, and to impose a state of confusion among the Israeli security authorities, which some Hebrew reports confirm are investigating the reasons for the failure of the operation at the time.
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It is known within Hamas that Al-Amoudi is one of the security figures with strategic thinking, and this is what brought him to the leadership of the movement in recent times, and that he has assumed many responsibilities since his release from Israeli prisons.
Al-Amoudi was very close to the former Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, inside and outside Israeli prisons, where they were detained together, before they were released. He was freed in the deal with the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, which the movement called “Loyalty of the Free.”
Al-Amoudi is a member of a political bureau in Hamas, and was responsible for the movement’s media department before the war. In December 2025, he became head of the work of its political office in the Gaza Strip, after he and a number of people close to Yahya Al-Sinwar were assigned to manage the movement in the Strip, the majority of whom lived in Khan Yunis in the south of the Strip, before some of the movement’s leaders rejected this assignment and recommendation, as they were a way to circumvent the movement’s internal laws.
Days and weeks before the assassination attempt, Al-Amoudi ran in an internal round of elections for the presidency of Hamas in Gaza, but did not win the election against his rival, Nizar Awadallah, so a run-off round was held, which was stopped due to the challenge.
Al-Amoudi is considered a central figure within the movement in the Gaza Strip and outside it, and has influence in many of the decisions taken in the movement.
