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2026-08-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF says Hamas tunnel commander and Oct. 7 hostage-holder killed in Gaza strikes
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[IsraelTimes] Army also says 2 Palestinians cross Yellow Line in separate incidents, one shot and one detained; kites from Gaza land in southern Israel, without any objects attached
The IDF said Saturday it had killed a Hamas
 ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
commander involved in efforts to restore the terror group’s tunnel network in central 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 ...
. It also said it had killed an October 7 terrorist who had held hostages, shot a Paleostinian who crossed into Israeli-held territory in the Strip, and detained an armed Hamas operative who breached the same boundary.
The Saturday strike in Deir al-Balah killed Sharif al-Hasanat, whom the IDF identified as a company commander in the terror group’s Deir al-Balah battalion. The military said Hasanat had spent much of the war helping restore Hamas’s underground infrastructure and had recently continued efforts to advance attacks against Israeli troops and civilians.
"Throughout the war, the terrorist led efforts to restore the underground infrastructure of the Hamas terror organization," the IDF said, adding that Hasanat had posed an "immediate threat to our forces and was eliminated." The military indicated it viewed that threat as justifying the strike despite the general ceasefire in Gaza.
The announcement came a day after the IDF said another Hamas operative, Sobhi Sami Mahmoud Shahtot, had been killed in a Wednesday strike in Nuseirat, also in central Gaza. The military identified Shahtot as a platoon commander in Hamas’s military wing who invaded Israel during the terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.
According to the IDF, Shahtot "took part in holding numerous hostages in Hamas captivity during the war" and was seen participating in Hamas hostage-release ceremonies in November 2023.
The IDF justified the attack by saying he had recently been advancing attacks against Israeli troops and civilians and was killed "to remove the threat."
INCIDENTS ALONG THE YELLOW LINE
The military also reported two separate confrontations along the "Yellow Line" on Friday. The line divides the Strip between areas controlled by the IDF and those under Hamas control under the current ceasefire arrangements. As drawn by mediators, it encompasses 53% of the Gaza Strip, most of it outside urban areas. The IDF, however, does not physically hold all of that territory, with many of the army’s positions located closer to the Israeli border.
In southern Gaza, Givati Brigade troops shot a Paleostinian who crossed the line and approached Israeli forces in a manner the military said posed an immediate threat. The IDF described the man as a terrorist and said troops opened fire to "neutralize" him and remove the threat.
Later Friday, troops from the 99th Division operating in central Gaza spotted what the army identified as a Hamas operative armed with a knife approaching the Yellow Line. Soldiers monitored the man after he crossed into the Israeli-held portion of the Strip and then detained him, the IDF said. He was taken to Israel for questioning.
KITES FLOWN FROM GAZA LAND IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL
Across the border, four kites with strings stretching for kilometers were located in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a civilian kibbutz in the Gaza Envelope. The army said the kites were not carrying anything suspicious and did not pose a threat.
Their purpose was not immediately clear, nor was it known who had sent them or why they had strings with a length no ordinary kite would have.
Hebrew media reports said the military assesses that Hamas was behind the kites, and was testing Israel’s response.
In 2018, Paleostinian bully boyz regularly launched kites carrying incendiary devices at Israeli border communities, setting fire to wide swaths of land.
HAMAS TIGHTENING GRIP
The weekend military activity also came as Israel accused Hamas of tightening its grip on Gaza’s civilian population as it seeks to retain control of the enclave.
In a joint statement Thursday, the IDF and Shin Bet alleged that Hamas has been using Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis to interrogate and torture Paleostinians as it faced what Israeli authorities described as an "erosion of support" in Gaza. The military said Hamas had stepped up the activities of its internal security apparatus and was seeking to maintain control through "intimidation, interrogations and torture of residents."
According to Israeli intelligence cited in the statement, Hamas internal security and military intelligence personnel were conducting interrogations on the second floor of the hospital’s outpatient-clinic building.
The IDF and Shin Bet also alleged that Hamas was using parts of the hospital complex for governance, interrogations and collecting money, as well as using a former hospital office building converted into a place of worship as another interrogation center.
The military said masked Hamas operatives maintained a regular presence in areas of the hospital compound and that the use of the medical facility created fear among patients and staff.
Israel has long accused Hamas and other Paleostinian terror groups of exploiting hospitals and other protected civilian sites for military purposes. Israeli hostages have also said they were held at Nasser Hospital.
Earlier in 2026, Doctors Without Borders suspended noncritical medical activities at Nasser Hospital because of the presence of gunnies there. The previous year, a doctor who also served as a Nasser Hospital front man hinted that 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...
had threatened him after he refused to allow its operatives to use the facility.
Translated from Hebrew
Kites from Gaza are on the rise. 3 found in the Envelope in less than a day, total about eight kites in a few weeks
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