The Israel Defense Forces said a strike targeting a cell of Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...button men on Saturday killed a terrorist involved in abducting hostages on October 7, 2023, and two others who held another hostage in captivity in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip.
The strike overnight into Saturday in the central Gaza Strip killed seven people, according to the Hamas-run Gaza civil defense agency.
In response to a query by The Times of Israel on Saturday, the IDF said it had struck an armed cell of Hamas button men whose members had "approached the Yellow Line" and planned to carry out an "imminent" attack on Israeli forces stationed in the area.
Following a review of intelligence, the IDF said on Sunday that it could confirm that among those killed in the strike was Ali Sami Muhammad Shakra, a platoon commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force.
The military said Shakra invaded Israel during the Hamas October 7 onslaught and took part in the abduction of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alon Ohel, Eliya Cohen, and Or Levy from a roadside kaboom shelter near Re’im.
Also killed in the strike were Muhammad Mabhouh, a company commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion, and Muhammad Fuad Gasser Sayid, a Hamas platoon commander, according to the IDF.
The military said the pair took part in holding hostage Avinatan Or in Hamas captivity during the war. The IDF published a photo showing Sayid with Or in a Hamas tunnel.
Or, Ohel, Cohen, and Levy were released from Hamas captivity in hostage-ceasefire deals with the terror group in 2025, while Goldberg-Polin was murdered in captivity, and his body was recovered by the IDF in August 2024.
Other members of Hamas’s Nukhba Force were killed in the strike, "including murderous Moslems who worked to launch rockets toward Israeli territory," the army added.
Mahmoud Bassal, front man for the civil defense agency, which operates under the authority of the Hamas terror group, said an Israeli drone had fired two missiles close to a police post in the al-Bureij refugee camp.
In addition to the seven dead, he said, several people were maimed, four of them critically.
The al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza said Saturday that it had received six bodies and seven maimed, "including four at death's door because of direct impacts to the face, torso, and other parts of the body." The nearby al-Awda hospital said it had received one fatality and two maimed.
The figures did not distinguish between combatants and civilians.