The IDF says one of some 20 Hamas operatives killed in a recent airstrike in Gaza City was responsible for a deadly attack in the West Bank in the early 2000s.
According to the IDF and Shin Bet, Nimr Hamida was killed in the strike in Gaza City’s Shati neighborhood earlier this month, which the military announced last week.
Hamida was behind an October 2003 shooting attack near the West Bank town of Ein Yabrud, killing three IDF soldiers, the military says.
He was exiled to the Gaza Strip in the 2011 Shalit deal, in which Israel exchanged more than 1,000 terrorists for hostage soldier Gilad Shalit.
In recent years, the IDF says he has served as a member of Hamas’s so-called West Bank headquarters, a Gaza Strip-based unit that advances attacks against Israel from or within the West Bank.
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