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Report: Target of IDF strike in central Gaza was Nukhba commander

By Nurit Yohanan 19 October 2025, 5:06 pm
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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

The Saudi Al-Hadath channel reports that the target of one Israeli strike in central Gaza earlier today was Yahya al-Mabhouh, a commander in the Nukhba forces — the elite unit of Hamas’s military wing — in northern Gaza.

Al-Mabhouh’s name appeared earlier in Palestinian reports as one of six people killed in a strike west of Deir al-Balah.

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