Army says it killed Hamas commander who raided IDF base on Oct. 7

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

A Hamas commander who raided the IDF’s Re’im base during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, the military announces.

The IDF says the strike killed Yahya Saeed Mohammed Hamdan, the commander of a Nukhba Force cell.

On October 7, Hamdan raided the Re’im base, which houses the headquarters of the IDF’s Gaza Division, according to the military.

Recently, Hamdan worked to advance attacks on troops, as well as to restore Hamas’s capabilities, and therefore, he “posed an immediate threat,” the IDF says.

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