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Two Hamas terrorists involved in Oct. 7 killed in Gaza strikes, IDF says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Flames engulf a vehicle struck by an Israeli strike in a street of Gaza City, Friday, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Two Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught were killed in recent strikes in the Gaza Strip, the IDF announces.
Khamer Iyad Muhammad Al-Matouq and Khaled Muhammad Salem Jouda were killed in separate strikes in northern Gaza in the past two weeks.
The military says the pair invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, recently attempted to carry out attacks on troops in Gaza, and had “posed an immediate threat to the forces.”
Another strike in central Gaza on Wednesday killed Abdel Rahman Mahmoud Jumaa Shafi, a member of Hamas’s Bureij Battalion, who the military says advanced attacks on troops in Gaza.
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