IDF: 6 Hamas operatives, two of them Oct 7 terrorists, killed in recent Gaza strikes

Military does not immediately comment on strikes Monday, which Palestinian sources say killed four, with children and woman among wounded

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Reuters Today, 5:38 pm
Palestinians surround a car that that was targeted in an Israeli strike as members of the civil defense extinguish the flames in Gaza City on November 2, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP)

Four Palestinians were reportedly killed by Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Monday, with the Israeli military also saying it had killed six members of the Hamas terror group, including two terrorists who took part in the October 7, 2023 onslaught, in earlier attacks.

Medics in Gaza said two people were killed and six were wounded in two separate airstrikes in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, on Monday. A woman and two children were wounded in one of the strikes, reports said. The children’s ages were not reported.

A third person was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza area of Al-Mussadar, the Hamas-run health ministry said.

Palestinian media outlets affiliated with Hamas also reported that one person was killed and five were injured in a strike on a car in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City.

There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on Monday’s strikes.

Meanwhile, the IDF announced that recent strikes in Gaza killed six Hamas operatives, including two who took part in the October 7 onslaught.


One strike on Saturday in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis killed Mohammed Kamel Maslih Qdeih, who, according to the IDF, raided Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, and, as part of his role in Hamas, was responsible for the “operational readiness” of terrorists in the group’s elite Nukhba Force.

Another strike on Saturday in central Gaza’s Nuseirat killed Diaa Abdel Mohsen Mohammed Abu al-Rous, also a Nukhba operative, the IDF said.

Additionally, separate strikes on Saturday in northern Gaza killed Nabil Hamad, the head of a department in Hamas’s “recruitment apparatus,” and Mohannad Nader Mahmoud Dahdouh, a sniper commander.

Two other strikes in northern Gaza on October 22 killed Wael Naif Fahmi Muslim, a Nukhba terrorist who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, and Arafat Kamal Muhammad Ar’air, a rocket squad commander, the IDF said.

The IDF said all six operatives had recently been advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians and acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities, “in systematic violation of the ceasefire.”

Israel in recent months has increasingly targeted operatives in Gaza, including numerous terrorists who took part in the Hamas-led October 7 atrocities, saying they posed a threat to Israeli forces.

According to the military, many of the recent strikes focused on Hamas operatives involved in building up the terror group’s force and civil control mechanisms in the Strip.

Implementation of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza has stalled, with Hamas refusing to disarm and Israel refusing to withdraw from any part of Gaza until that condition is met.

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