Hamas terrorist who invaded on Oct. 7, bombed soldier in Gaza, killed in strike – IDF

A Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught and was responsible for a deadly attack on troops in northern Gaza in April was killed in a recent airstrike in the Strip, the military and Shin Bet announce.

Muhammad Rashid Muhammad Masri, the commander of a Nukhba Force platoon in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion, was killed in a strike on September 9, the IDF says.

The military says Masri participated in the Hamas-led onslaught on October 7, 2023, and carried out an attack, alongside other Hamas gunmen, in Beit Hanoun on April 19.

In the April attack, the Hamas cell had initially ambushed an army vehicle driving along a logistics road near Beit Hanoun with RPGs and gunfire, seriously wounding three servicewomen, including an officer and a combat medic.

After the attack on the vehicle, the terror operatives laid a bomb on the side of the road and detonated it when rescue forces arrived around 25 minutes later, killing a soldier, Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, a tracker in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, and seriously wounding another tracker.