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The Hamas terrorist organization officially announced this morning that Ahmed Ghandour, the commander of Hamas' military wing in northern Gaza, was eliminated by the IDF. The terrorist organization also stated that the body Ayman Siam, the head of its rocket firing array, had been found and that senior Hamas leaders Wael Rajab and Raafat Salman had also been eliminated. The IDF had previously stated that it had been targeting Ghandour and Siam, but no confirmation of their elimination had been made. It is unclear when the Hamas leaders were killed and whether they were killed in airstrikes or by IDF...

"The mission was simply to kill," Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha told Shin Bet interrogators. Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha during a Shin Bet interrogation. Credit: Israel Security Agency.Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha during a Shin Bet interrogation. Credit: Israel Security Agency. (November 1, 2023 / JNS) The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) released an interrogation video on Wednesday of a captured Hamas terrorist, who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. “The mission was simply to kill. We weren’t supposed to kidnap, just kill,” Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu...

The IDF says that overnight it killed the head of the military wing of Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees terror group. The military says that warplanes carried out an airstrike on the southern Gaza city of Rafah following information received from the Shin Bet, killing Rafat Abu Hilal. The Popular Resistance Committees is the third largest terror faction in the Strip after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Separately, the IDF says it targeted several members of Hamas’s so-called Nukhba commando forces, who led the October 7 onslaught. The military says more than ten Nukhba members were killed in the strikes. In...

IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis. Following Shin Bet (ISA) intelligence, IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis, who was responsible for the Kibbutz Nirim massacre. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives were also killed. The IDF also struck over one hundred military targets located in Zaytun, Khan Yunis, and west Jabaliya. These strikes impacted the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization, by...

Overnight (Thursday), the IDF conducted a wave of strikes targeting the Nukhba elite forces of the Hamas terrorist organization, by striking operational command centers used by operatives who infiltrated the communities surrounding Gaza last Saturday. The Nukhba elite forces consist of terrorists selected by senior Hamas operatives, designated to carry out terrorist attacks such as ambushes, raids, assaults, infiltration through terror tunnels, as well as anti-tank missile, rocket, and sniper fire. The Nukhba elite forces were one of the leading forces that infiltrated the State of Israel in order to carry out murderous acts of terror against its civilians. Furthermore,...