IDF chief praises killing of Hamas’s Gaza leader, vows to continue hunt for Oct. 7 perpetrators

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir hails the killing of Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip and chief of the terror group’s military wing, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, and instructs the Southern Command to stay alert amid fears the terror group may retaliate.

“This is a significant operational success by the IDF led by the Southern Command, the Intelligence Directorate, the Air Force and the Shin Bet,” he says during an assessment, in remarks published by the IDF.

“In every conversation I held with the hostages who returned, the name of the arch-terrorist, Izz al-Din al-Haddad — one of the main figures responsible for the October 7 massacre and the head of Hamas’s military wing — came up again and again,” Zamir says.

“Today, we succeeded in eliminating him. The IDF will continue to pursue our enemies, strike, and settle accounts with everyone who took part in the October 7 massacre,” he says.

During the assessment, Zamir instructed the Southern Command to “maintain high operational readiness and to respond immediately to any attempt to harm our forces or the territory of the State of Israel,” the military adds.