From the Liveblog of
Monday, November 25, 2024
IDF says head of Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion rocket unit killed in Gaza airstrike
The head of Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion’s rocket unit was recently killed in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF says, in an operation that also took out a terror operative who participated in the October 7 onslaught in southern Israel last year.
In a statement, the military says that the Israeli Air Force carried out the strike against rocket unit head Ahmed Abd Halim Abu Hussein in cooperation with the 215th Artillery Regiment, the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Shin Bet.
It says that Abu Hussein was “responsible for planning numerous rocket and mortar launches toward Israel and IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip.
Several other Hamas operatives were killed in the attack, the IDF says, including one who “participated in the murderous massacre on October 7.”
כלי טיס של חיל האוויר תקפו במהלך סוף השבוע, בהכוונת חטיבת האש 215, אמ"ן ושב"כ, וחיסלו את המחבל אחמד עבד חלים אבו חוסין, אחראי התמ"ס של גדוד מזרח ג'באליה בארגון הטרור חמאס>> pic.twitter.com/L8gaiL6ukX
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) November 25, 2024
