IDF, Shin Bet say Hamas operative responsible for raising funds for terror group killed in recent strike

A Hamas operative responsible for raising funds for the terror group’s military wing was killed in an Israeli airstrike last week, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.

According to the military, Jasser Hussein Ali Shamieh “was responsible for the transfer of tens of millions of dollars to Hamas’s military wing.”

“These funds were used for the force build-up of the military wing, the payment of Hamas terrorist salaries, and the funding of the terror organization,” the IDF says, adding that the money also “enabled the continuation of fighting and the sustainability of Hamas’s brigades in northern Gaza.”

Shamieh himself previously served as a battalion commander in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade, the military says.

Meanwhile, the IDF says it struck over 130 “terror targets” in the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours.

The targets included rocket launchers, cells of operatives, and buildings used by terror groups to plan attacks on forces, the military says.

Ground troops also killed several operatives and destroyed Hamas infrastructure in both northern and southern Gaza, the IDF adds.