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Wednesday, October 28, 2026
IDF: 3 Hamas members, including terrorist involved in abducting and holding hostages, killed in Gaza strikes
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Three members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, including a terrorist who participated in the abduction of hostages during the October 7 onslaught, were killed in recent strikes in the Gaza Strip, the military announces.
The IDF says a strike on Thursday in southern Gaza killed Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed Baraka, a Nukhba terrorist who invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.
According to the military, the terrorist took part in abducting several Israeli civilians during the onslaught, including Alexander Dancyg, and during the war, he assisted in holding “numerous hostages,” including soldier Sgt. 1st Class Nimrod Cohen, in southern Gaza.
חיל-האוויר תקף בשבוע שעבר בדרום רצועת עזה, וחיסל את אחמד מחמד אחמד ברכה, מחבל נוח'בה בזרוע הצבאית של ארגון הטרור חמאס.
המחבל לקח חלק בחטיפתם של מספר אזרחים ישראלים במהלך טבח 7 באוקטובר, בהם אלכסנדר דנציג ז"ל מקיבוץ ניר עוז.
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A separate strike on Friday in northern Gaza killed two more Hamas operatives, identified by the IDF as Omar Awadallah, a Nukhba platoon commander, and Moataz Mahmoud Mohammed Al-Nimr, a Nukhba operative.
The military says the three operatives had recently been advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians and acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities, “in systematic violation of the ceasefire.”
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