Israel: Deif attempted assassination 'very complex'

The Tuesday attempted assassination of Hamas's military leader, Mohammed Deif, in Rafah was a "very complex intelligence operation that succeeded in producing results," a senior Israeli security source says. 

"The success is that we got to three targets in one day. That fact that we hit a place in which Deif was suspected to be is a fact. What exactly happened there, is not yet known," the source told Haaretz newspaper. 

Deif is believed to have survived the attack, although this has not been confirmed. His wife and infant son, however, were killed in the strike and buried yesterday in Gaza.