Freed hostage Omri Miran says ‘the world is better’ after Izz al-Din al-Haddad killed

16 May 2026, 5:17 pm

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Omri Miran pictured at the beach, with his wife Lishay and two daughters out of shot, on October 17, 2025, soon after his discharge from the hospital, and four days after he was released from more than two years in Hamas captivity in Gaza. (Via X; Eli Teichman and Shir Katz)

Freed hostage Omri Miran cheers the killing of Hamas military chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, saying he encountered the senior terror leader several times while held in tunnels below Gaza.

In a post on Instagram, Miran says the news of Haddad’s death feels “like a type of small victory, a victory over evil, and that the world is better today,” adding that he hopes the assassination brings “a small measure of justice” to bereaved families.

“In the tunnels of Gaza I was forced several times to stay with the arch-murderer Izz al-Din al-Haddad,” Miran continues. “I saw the evil in his eyes, something impossible to describe in words. Calmly, as he smiled from ear to ear, he proudly boasted how he was an architect of the October 7 massacre.”