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Hamas commander who led massacre at roadside shelter near Kibbutz Re’im on Oct. 7 killed in Gaza strike – IDF
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A Hamas Nukhba Force commander who led the killing and kidnapping of Israelis from a roadside bomb shelter near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7, was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.
According to the military, Muhammad Abu Attawi, who served as a Nukha commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion, was also employed by UNRWA since July 2022.
During the October 7 onslaught, Attawi commanded the attack on a bomb shelter near Re’im where partygoers from the Nova festival had fled to.
Four people were taken hostage alive from the shelter — including Hersh Goldberg-Polin — and 16 were murdered. Seven managed to survive and were later rescued.
Attawi was also involved in attacks on troops during the war in Gaza, the IDF says.
New footage from October 7 shows how Hamas terrorists attacked a packed public bomb shelter near the Nova festival near Re'im, hurling grenades at the partygoers who were sheltering from the rocket attacks. Inside, off duty soldier Staff Sgt. Aner Elyakim Shapiro managed to toss… pic.twitter.com/pmlcVQnvg8
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) November 14, 2023
The military says COGAT representatives have also “demanded from senior officials in the international community and the UN clarifications and an urgent inquiry into the participation of UNRWA employees in the October 7 massacre and terrorist activity against Israel.”
The Times of Israel Community.