Nukhba commander and October 7 participants killed by troops in Gaza, IDF says

Israeli strikes in Gaza over the past day killed Hamas officers and terrorists who participated in the October 7 onslaught, the Israel Defense Forces says in a morning update.

Fighter jets struck two terrorists who participated in the massacre in Nir Yitzhak on October 7, the IDF says.

Additionally, the army says two platoon commanders and a squad commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force were targeted in a separate strike.

It does not specify where either strike took place.

In the northern Gazan city of Beit Hanoun, the IDF says a fighter jet struck a building where two Hamas operatives were seen fleeing, publishing footage of the attack.

בהכוונת מכלול האש של החטיבה הצפונית באוגדת עזה מטוס קרב תקף וחיסל שני מחבלים במרחב בית חאנון שנמלטו למבנה צבאי.

מטוסי קרב תקפו שני מחבלים שלקחו חלק בטבח בניר יצחק ב-7 באוקטובר ושהו בתשתית צבאית >> pic.twitter.com/vRf0PrnT9h

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The army says Nahal Brigade soldiers in central Gaza killed some 20 Hamas gunmen over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in airstrikes.

One airstrike was carried out against a site from which operatives fired rockets at troops inside Gaza. The IDF says secondary explosions after the strike indicated that additional rockets were stored there.

In southern Gaza, the Commando Brigade pressed into the Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Younis, scanning buildings, locating firearms and killing several Hamas operatives, the IDF says.

In the same area, Givati Brigade troops called in a strike by an attack helicopter on a Hamas gunman and killed another operative who was approaching them.

Elsewhere in Khan Younis, the IDF says the Bislamach Brigade ambushed and killed a five-man Hamas cell.