Hamas commander who led Gaza City Brigade’s Oct. 7 invasion, held hostages is killed in Gaza strike

A senior Hamas commander who oversaw his brigade’s invasion of Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught and later held numerous hostages in captivity was killed in an airstrike over the weekend, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.

According to the military, the strike on Saturday in Gaza City killed Adham Ibrahim Shaaban Nasman, who served as chief of operations in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade.

Nasman previously served as a commander of a Nukhba force battalion, and during the October 7 attack, “he commanded and directed the infiltration into the State of Israel by Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade,” the IDF says.

????ELIMINATED: Adham Ibrahim Sha'aban Nasman, Hamas’ Head of the Operations Department of the Gaza City Brigade, who directed the October 7 Massacre infiltration of his brigade's terrorists and held numerous hostages captive.

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The military says that throughout the war, Nasman was responsible for holding numerous hostages in Hamas captivity, including Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Ziv and Gali Berman, Eitan Mor, Matan Angrest, and Omri Miran.

Additionally, the IDF says Nasman also previously served as the intelligence officer in the Gaza City Brigade and commander of the Shati Battalion. In those roles, he led numerous attacks on IDF troops and Israel.

Recently, the IDF says, Nasman tried to recruit and train terrorists in the Gaza City Brigade, as well as advance production and distribution of weapons, in an attempt to rebuild Hamas “while violating the ceasefire agreement.” He was therefore targeted.