IDF: Hamas commander planning ‘imminent’ attacks killed in Monday Gaza strike

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

A Hamas commander who was planning “imminent” attacks on troops was killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency say.

The strike killed Younes Mohammed Hussein Alian, who is identified by the military and Shin Bet as the chief of Hamas’s naval force in the northern Gaza Strip.

The IDF says Alian was working to restore Hamas’s capabilities in northern Gaza and he planned to carry out attacks against “IDF troops operating in the Strip and the State of Israel in the immediate timeframe.”

“The terrorist was struck precisely after posing a real threat to IDF troops,” the statement says.

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