Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader Osamabin Laden, is reported dead, according to multiple news organizations citing U.S. officials.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, officials said Hamzabin Laden was killed during the first two years of the Trump administration,but they did not disclose where or exactly when the operation occurred, norwhat role the U.S government played, according to the New York Times. They saidhe was killed before February 2019 when the State Department announced a $1million reward for information about his whereabouts before U.S. officialscould confirm his death.The death of Osama bin Laden's heir was first reported ..PresidentTrump was asked by reporters about it on Wednesday, but he said only, "Idon't want to comment on that." Reuters reports that U.S. officials onlyrecently reached the conclusion that the younger bin Laden was dead.

Osama bin Laden was killed in a raid by Navy Seals in 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The reports suggest that Hamza bin Laden was groomedfor eventual leadership of al-Qaida. In an extensive article published by the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point, a former F.B.I agent, Ali Soufan describes Hamza as his father's favorite son."Many factors suggest that Hamza couldbe a highly effective leader: his family pedigree, his dynastic marriage, his longstanding jihadi fervor and obvious charisma, and his closeness toal-Qa`ida's most senior operatives," Soufan wrote. "It remains to beseen how, exactly, the organization will make use of him, but it is clear thathis star is on the rise. That should worry policymakers in the West as well asin the Muslim world."

Two other bin Laden brothers were killed in 2009 and 2011.InMarch 2018, Hamza bin Laden, through al-Qaida's media outlet, issued astatement threatening Saudi Arabia and urging the people of the ArabianPeninsula to revolt, according to the United Nations Security Council. He had madeearlier threats against American, French and Israeli interests dating to 2015.