IDF says Islamic Jihad commander who invaded Israel on Oct. 7 killed in recent strike

The commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Shejaiya sector, who had invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught, was killed in a recent strike in the Gaza Strip, the military and Shin Bet announce.

Fadl Abu al-Ata, according to the IDF and Shin Bet, previously served as the deputy commander of the Shejaiya sector, and during the war was promoted to head the Islamic Jihad regional unit.

“Abu al-Ata was one of the key coordinators between terror organizations in the Shejaiya sector, and he directed numerous terror attacks against IDF troops,” the military says, adding that he infiltrated Israel on October 7, 2023.

A separate strike killed Hamed Kamel Abd al-Aziz Iyad, who the IDF says was responsible for engineering and explosives in Islamic Jihad’s Turukman Battalion.

The military says he was “responsible for planning and executing terror and explosive attacks against IDF troops.”