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Hamas commander killed in Gaza strike on Saturday, IDF says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A Hamas commander was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the military says.
The IDF says that Bahaa Baroud, who served in Hamas’s operations division, had advanced many attacks against troops and Israeli civilians “in the immediate timeframe.”
“Baroud posed an immediate threat to IDF troops and was struck and eliminated in a precise aerial strike,” the military says.
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