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IDF: Oct. 7 terrorist who held Omer Shem Tov hostage killed in recent Gaza strike
2026-06-23
[IsraelTimes] Sabaei Zahir Abd al-Hamid Abu Hasna, a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force who forced Israeli captive to kiss him upon release, was targeted in Saturday airstrike, says military

A Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught and held hostage Omer Shem Tov in captivity during the war was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
over the weekend, the IDF announced on Monday.

The military said the strike in the northern 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip on Saturday killed Sabaei Zahir Abd al-Hamid Abu Hasna, a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force.

When Shem Tov was released by Hamas, he was seen being directed to kiss Abu Hasna on his head by the terror group’s cameramen, who were filming the carefully staged handover event.

Abu Hasna invaded Israel on October 7, held Shem Tov in captivity, was involved in planting bombs during the war, and recently attempted to advance attacks on troops operating in Gaza, the IDF said Monday.

In an interview after his release in February 2025, Shem Tov said he was held in a cell 40 meters (130 feet) underground, where he was often in total darkness. He survived on little more than a biscuit daily, he said — dropping from around 80 kilograms (176 pounds) to 55 kilograms (121 pounds).

"There were times I thought, I’m blind. I have been starved. I have been spat on. I’ve been cursed. Difficult, difficult times," Shem Tov said last year.

In a separate strike over the weekend, three Hamas button men who attempted to advance attacks on troops were killed, the military added.

The IDF in recent months has been ramping up strikes on terror operatives in Gaza, including several October 7 terrorists, claiming they posed a threat to Israeli forces.

Earlier Monday, the IDF said that two Hamas operatives who had been advancing attacks on troops were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza over the weekend.

One strike in northern Gaza on Saturday killed Ahmad Munir Khalil Zaza, chief of engineering in Hamas’s West Jabalia Battalion, according to the military. The IDF said Zaza was involved in manufacturing and distributing weapons to the battalion’s fighters and was responsible for building bombs and booby-trapping homes.

"Recently, Zaza attempted to plant bombs near the Yellow Line to harm IDF troops operating in the area," the military said.

In a separate strike in northern Gaza, the commander of Hamas’s sniper array in Gaza City, Hussein Safadi, was killed, the IDF added.

"Safadi was responsible throughout the war for all sniper attacks against IDF troops operating in the Gaza City area," the military said, adding that recently he "repeatedly violated the ceasefire agreement and attempted to train holy warriors and advance additional sniper attacks against IDF troops."


Finally naming their war dead, Gazan terror groups admit some slain journalists were fighters

[IsraelTimes] A ToI review finds obituaries published by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in recent weeks include several figures previously identified as press; widely cited media advocacy database removes several names of fighters it had said were journalists
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