Israel Says It Killed Abu Obeida, Spokesman for Hamas’s Armed Wing NYT | Top Stories Aaron Boxerman and Abu Bakr Bashir 1 September 2025 at 02:36 Hamas did not immediately comment on the Israeli military’s claim that Abu Obeida, one of the armed group’s best-known officials in the Arab world, had been killed. © Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York TimesA banner featuring Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, hung in Beirut, Lebanon, last year.