The Israeli military said that Mohammed Deif, the elusive leader of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip and an accused mastermind of the October 7 attack, was killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis on July 13. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, in a social media post, called Deif the “Osama Bin Laden of Gaza.” “This is a significant milestone in the process of dismantling Hamas as a military and governing authority in Gaza, and in the achievement of the goals of this war,” he wrote on Thursday. One of Israel’s central aims in the nearly 10-month-old war has been to capture or kill Deif a…