[IsraelTimes] Army says recent airstrike killed Muhammad Hamed Muhammad al-Hawli, who was responsible for shooting death of Israeli Yevgeny Gromov more than 30 years ago
The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet on Saturday revealed the identities of several Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
and 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...
operatives killed in strikes across 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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip earlier in the week, which Israel said were carried out in response to a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire in western Rafah when button men shot up troops.
Among those killed was Muhammad Hamed Muhammad al-Hawli, identified previously by senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan as a local al-Qassam Brigades commander.
According to the military, al-Hawli was a key figure in the organization for decades, played a significant role in Hamas’s preparations for the October 7, 2023, onslaught, and previously directed the February 1995 Nahal Oz checkpoint attack in which Yevgeny Gromov was killed.
During the attack, Paleostinian button men opened fire on an Israeli security vehicle carrying Gromov, who was working as a guard escorting two fuel tankers into the Gaza Strip from nearby Nahal Oz. Gromov was badly maimed, but before he died, he was able to fire back at the terrorists, driving them off. He was the only person killed in the attack.
Hamas never explicitly grabbed credit for the attack, though according to the IDF, it was carried out at the direction of al-Hawli, who the military said was killed Thursday, some 30 years
Reports at the time of the strike indicated that at least five additional people, including al-Hawli’s wife and daughter, were killed in the strike in Deir al-Balah.
The IDF also confirmed that it killed Ashraf Adnan Muhammad al-Khatib, who, according to the military, was the commander of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket and missile array in central Gaza.
Arabic media reported that an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
on Thursday night struck a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing al-Khatib along with his wife and wounding several others.
Israel also confirmed killing Saeed Khaled Ali Abd al-Rahman, whom the IDF identified as the sniper commander in Hamas’s Deir al-Balah Battalion and a "major source of expertise in the field." It is unclear where and when al-Rahman was killed.
In an additional strike, the IDF said it killed two more Hamas operatives who were involved in efforts to rehabilitate the group’s infrastructure, without specifying their identities or the location of the strike.
The military said the strikes dealt a "significant blow" to the terror groups’ ability to plan and carry out attacks against IDF troops deployed in Gaza under the ceasefire, vowing to continue acting against attempts to harm Israeli troops and civilians.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion...
the Hamas-run health ministry reported that hospitals in Gaza received the body of one person killed by the military, as well as several maimed by IDF fire, over the previous 24 hours. The report did not identify the dead person or say where they were killed.
Paleostinian media reported Friday evening that a teenager was killed by IDF gunfire on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya. The IDF has not commented on the reports.
The media identified him as Muhammad al-Brawi, 16. His body was reportedly brought to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital and taken by his family for burial earlier Saturday.
Gaza hospitals also attended to six people maimed by IDF gunfire in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry said. It did not specify where the people were maimed or the severity of their wounds.
Additionally, the health ministry reported Saturday that a 27-day-old girl died of cold exposure. Paleostinian media identified the baby as Aisha al-Agha. She reportedly was found dead Saturday morning in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
According to the ministry, she was the eighth child to die of cold exposure in Gaza this winter season, starting in December.
The Paleostinian territory’s population of more than 2 million people has been struggling to keep the cold weather, including rain and severe storms, at bay, amid a shortage of humanitarian aid and Israel’s ban on the entry of trailer homes. It’s the third winter since the war between Israel and Hamas started on October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group led thousands of fighters in an invasion of southern Israel that killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 kidnapped into Gaza.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, Israel has killed over 400 people in the Strip since the ceasefire-hostage agreement came into effect in October, adding to the more than 70,000 killed during the war, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
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