A Hamas operative who killed Israeli police officer Ch. Insp. Arnon Zmora, during a hostage rescue mission in the central Gaza Strip last summer, was killed in a recent airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet and IDF announce.
Muhammad Ahmad Yousef al-Jamal, a member of Hamas, was among those guarding hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, according to the IDF and Shin Bet.
On June 8, 2024, Israeli special forces from the Shin Bet and Israel Police’s elite Yamam unit raided an apartment belonging to Abdallah al-Jamal — his relative and a journalist — in Nuseirat and rescued the three hostages, in a mission later named Operation Arnon after the slain Yamam officer.
As the forces breached the building where the hostages were held, Muhammad al-Jamal shot Zmora fatally. Abdallah al-Jamal and other members of the al-Jamal family were killed during the raid, but not Muhammad.
Alongside al-Jamal, the recent Israeli Air Force strike also killed Sari Idris Muhammad al-Aqrab, a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught and was considered “close” to al-Jamal, the Shin Bet says.
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