A Hamas commander who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, the army announces.
The strike killed Nihad Riyad Abd al-Rahim Arouq, a platoon commander in Hamas’s Shati Battalion, according to the IDF.
Arouq participated in the October 7 onslaught and recently worked to train additional terrorists and advance attacks on troops, the military says.
“The terrorist posed a threat to our forces operating in the Gaza Strip and was eliminated in a precise aerial strike,” the IDF adds.
The IDF in recent months has ramped up strikes on terror operatives in Gaza, including numerous October 7 terrorists, saying they posed a threat to Israeli forces.
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