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2026-10-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli airstrike in Gaza City overnight targeted senior Hamas official Ali al-Amoud, Friday 2 PIJ rocket commanders eliminated

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An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City overnight targeted senior Hamas official Ali al-Amoudi, according to a security source, with Palestinian media reporting five people killed.

The strike hit a building in western Gaza City.

Palestinian media reported that those killed included a young man, a mother and her daughter, and two other adult women. Amoudi was not named among the dead.

The IDF has not yet commented on the strike as it assesses the results.

Amoudi has been reported to be a frontrunner to succeed Khalil al-Hayya as head of Hamas’s political bureau in the Gaza Strip. He is currently believed to be the de facto senior-most Hamas political official in the Strip.

IDF eliminates terrorist commanders in the rocket system of the terrorist Islamic Jihad organization

Translated Text:

The IDF eliminates terrorist commanders in the rocket system of the terrorist Islamic Jihad organization

🔻 Yesterday (Friday), the IDF struck in the city of Gaza and eliminated the terrorist Ahmed Mahmoud Harb al-Ramlawi, who was a commander in the rocket unit of the Shuja'iyya Battalion in the military wing of the terrorist Islamic Jihad organization.

🔻 And in another airstrike in the Gaza City area, the terrorist Munir Ibrahim al-Masri, head of the anti-armor rocket cell in the organization's military wing, was eliminated.

🔸 Throughout the war and in recent times, the two terrorists promoted terrorist plans against IDF forces and citizens of the State of Israel, and worked to rebuild the organization's capabilities, in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement. They were eliminated in airstrikes.

🔸 Prior to executing the strikes, steps were taken to minimize harm to civilians as much as possible, including the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance operations.

🔸 IDF forces under the Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue operations to remove any immediate threat.

IDF strike on Hamas's Gaza chief kills 5, including mother and daughter; his fate unclear
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in 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...
City overnight Friday-Saturday targeted Ali al-Amoudi, the terror group’s de facto leader in the enclave, according to the military, with Paleostinian media reporting five people killed, including a number of women.

It was unclear whether Amoudi was killed.

The strike hit a building in western Gaza City. Paleostinian media reported that among those killed were Maisaa Abu Dawood and her daughter Mary, members of Gaza’s Greek Orthodox church.

Videos circulating online showed a funeral procession for the pair in the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on Saturday.

Dr. Yasmin al-Bobo, head of Paleostine University’s multimedia department, and her mother were also identified as victims, along with a 21-year-old man.

Amoudi was not named among the dead in Paleostinian media, though rescue teams were still reportedly searching for additional missing people.

The Israel Defense Forces said that the strike targeted Amoudi while he was residing in an apartment "used for terror activity, inside a residential building," and that it took steps to "minimize harm to civilians as much as possible."

"This is further evidence of the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
terror group’s hiding among the civilian population and its cynical use of them as human shields and to advance terrorist plots," the army said.

Amoudi, a close confidant of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, was released from Israeli prison in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange — the same deal that saw Sinwar freed — and later ran Sinwar’s office before heading Hamas’s media apparatus.

Amoudi has emerged as a central figure following the killing of senior Hamas leaders, and now effectively manages the terror group’s affairs in the Strip, particularly the work of its political bureau.

The IDF, in its statement, identified Amoudi as the deputy chairman of Hamas’s political bureau in Gaza, saying he had served as former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s "right-hand man and personal aide, and was involved in decision-making for the October 7 massacre."

The military said that in 1993, Amoudi was involved in the murder of four Israelis in the West Bank, and in 1994, was involved in an incident in Ramallah in which Shin Bet agent Noam-Menachem Cohen was killed.

"Today, Amoudi is the most senior Hamas figure in the Gaza Strip and is directly involved in Hamas terror activity and in rebuilding the group for war," the army said, adding that he was targeted to "remove the threat."

Khalil al-Hayya, based in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, was elected overall leader of Hamas in July, prompting the group to hold a separate internal election to replace him as its political chief in Gaza.

That contest has yet to produce a winner. The first round between Amoudi and Hamas official Nizar Awadallah reportedly ended inconclusively after some voters submitted blank ballots, and a runoff was subsequently suspended after Awadallah challenged aspects of the voting process.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking...
the IDF announced Saturday that two Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
commanders were killed in separate strikes in Gaza City the day prior.

One strike killed Ahmed Mahmoud Harb Ramlawi, who, according to the IDF, served as a commander in the rocket unit of Islamic Jihad’s Shejaiya Battalion.

A second strike killed Munir Ibrahim Masri, a commander of an Islamic Jihad anti-tank squad, the army said.

Both terror operatives had been advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians and were attempting to restore Islamic Jihad capabilities, "in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement," the IDF said in a statement.

The weekend strikes came after the military said it killed two Hamas members in separate strikes throughout the week.

The targets were identified by the military as Izz al-Din al-Bik, who had overseen the holding of at least 15 Israeli hostages during the war and took part in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught, as well as Tamer Hamaida, who served as a sniper in Hamas’s military wing.

Over 74,200 people have been killed in Gaza since Hamas’s October 7 attacks, including more than 1,400 since an October 2025 ceasefire, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the enclave, although the toll does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.

The Israeli military believes that Hamas’s overall toll is largely accurate, with IDF officials estimating that two to three non-combatants were killed for every dead terror operative.

The IDF says it has killed over 24,000 combatants in Gaza and another 1,200 hard boyz inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
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