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IDF says it killed Hamas terrorist seen celebrating next to captured tank on Oct. 7
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip last week, the IDF announces.
The strike on Wednesday in Gaza City’s Shati Camp killed Abd al-Rahman Maher Abd al-Karim Ziyada, who the IDF says was a commander of a Nukhba Force cell in Hamas’s military wing.
He was seen celebrating on October 7 next to a captured IDF tank, from which soldiers were abducted. The tank remained on the border after being disabled.
“The terrorist infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7 massacre and looted an IDF vehicle, taking it into the Gaza Strip,” the military says. Several army jeeps were taken by Hamas terrorists into Gaza during the onslaught.
A separate strike on Wednesday, in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, killed a Hamas tunnel expert. The military says it targeted Kamal Muhammad Hamdan Najar, head of the tunnel unit in the Khan Younis area.
The IDF says that throughout the war and recently, both terror operatives tried to advance attacks on troops, and therefore they “posed an immediate threat to the forces and were eliminated in precise strikes.”
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