A Hamas terrorist who participated in the raid on the military’s Nahal Oz base during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip last week, the IDF announces.
The IDF says the strike last Wednesday had targeted Hamza Sharbasi, a commander in Hamas’s Shejaiya Battalion, who had posed a threat to Israeli troops in Gaza. While not the target, the strike also killed Azzam al-Hayya, the 23-year-old son of Hamas’s chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya.
According to the military, Azzam al-Hayya was a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, “who recently held a central role in the organization.”
The IDF says Sharbasi took part in the attack on the Nahal Oz base on October 7, where dozens of soldiers were killed and abducted.
“Recently, Sharbasi operated near the yellow line and, in the framework of his role, worked to advance terror plots against IDF troops operating in the area,” the military says.
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