IDF names terror operatives killed in Gaza strikes over past two weeks

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

Smoke rises amid an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, July 13, 2025. (Flash90)
Smoke rises amid an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, July 13, 2025. (Flash90)

A series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in the past two weeks killed numerous terror operatives involved in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad efforts to regroup, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.

The joint statement says the Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders headed units that worked to rebuild the terror groups’ military wings, including weapon production and military intelligence.

The IDF and Shin Bet name some of the operatives as:

Muhammad Abu Awwad, a senior member of Hamas’s projects and development department in the weapons production headquarters;

Bilal Abu Shikha, a section commander in Hamas’s weapons production headquarters;

Tayseer Shareem, a section commander in Hamas’s weapons production headquarters;

Mundhir Salami, the commander of a weapons production site;

Bilal Musallam, a section commander in Hamas’s military intelligence division;

Rabi’ Mustafa Rabi’ Sukhweil, a “financial operative” in Hamas’s military wing, involved in transferring millions of dollars to the terror group;

Ahmad Abu Shamala, a squad commander in Hamas’s military intelligence division;

Mustafa Dababesh, a deputy head of a department in Hamas’s weapons production headquarters;

and Muhammad Al-Bayouk, a senior member of Islamic Jihad’s weapons production array.

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