A Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught and was planning attacks on troops was killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip last week, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.
The military says that on Tuesday it struck and killed Sakr Abu Karim, a commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force and the leader of the Hamas raid in the Kissufim area on October 7, 2023.
Throughout the war, Abu Karim advanced and carried out attacks on troops in Gaza, and recently, “he violated the ceasefire agreement and stored numerous weapons in his home, while attempting to rebuild the organization and conduct terrorist training to advance additional terror attack plans,” the IDF says.
Alongside Abu Karim, the IDF says, the strike killed another Hamas member who served as a communications operative.
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