Plotting terror in their tunnels… before five of them were killed in an airstrike: IDF reveals five Hamas commanders killed since posing for a photo
Israel has revealed that five Hamas commanders who took a friendly photo together have all been killed in airstrikes, following Israel’s lightning retaliation against the terror group.
The IDF released a photo of eleven top-level Hamas commanders sitting smiling in a long and narrow room, with plates of fruit and drinks on the tables in front of them.
An IDF spokesman revealed that of the 11 men, five were confirmed killed in airstrikes launched as part of the ground offensive on Gaza, which saw massive artillery and aerial bombardment of the enclave in revenge for the October 7 Hamas invasion.
The IDF did not say when or where the photo was taken, but said the photos in it were from the Northern Gaza Brigade, Hamas’s second-largest brigade.
In a statement, the IDF said: “IDF forces led by Shin Bet intelligence killed brigade commander Ahmed Jandor and Wael Rajab, as well as other senior officials.
The IDF did not say when or where the photo was taken, but said the people in it were from the Northern Gaza Brigade, the second-largest brigade in Hamas.
Ibrahim Biari (photo) was the Hamas commander of the Central Jabaliya Battalion, stationed in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
“They included other senior figures, as well as the head of the military formation and the person responsible for surveillance in the northern Gaza Strip.”
The IDF said Jandor and Rajab were responsible for terrorist activities in the northern Gaza Strip, adding that key members of the Hamas branch in Gaza City were also eliminated in the attack.
Jandor was a member of the Hamas military council and is believed to have played a major role in directing the terror group’s activities in the northern Gaza Strip.
Rajab, meanwhile, was an operations officer in Hamas’s northern Gaza brigade. He was once chief of police in northern Gaza and commander of Hamas’s Beit Lahiya battalion.
Rajab filmed himself walking through the tunnels under Gaza with a grim look on his face, footage of which has been released by the IDF.
Along with Jandor and Rajab, the airstrike killed the leader of the brigade’s auxiliary battalion, the head of the military formation and the officer responsible for observations in the north.
Rajab filmed himself walking through the tunnels under Gaza with a grim look on his face
The images of the tunnel were released today by the IDF
Other Hamas commanders in the photo were also identified.
Ibrahim Biari was the Hamas commander of the Central Jabaliya Battalion, based in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, and was killed on November 1 after Israeli fighter jets attacked the region.
Biari oversaw all Hamas operations in the northern Gaza Strip since the militant group began its ground offensive.
He was also believed to have been involved in several attacks on Israel in recent decades.
Also in the photo was the head of Hamas’s air operations, Murad Abu Murad.
Israeli forces fought fierce battles with Hamas in southern Gaza on Wednesday after reaching the heart of the city of Khan Younis
Residents said Israeli bombing intensified overnight, killing and injuring an unspecified number of people
Gaza has seen massive artillery and aerial bombardments in revenge for the October 7 Hamas incursion
Hamas’ armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said the fighting was fierce
Murad was killed less than a week after Hamas’s invasion of Israel. Night air raids killed him on October 13.
He is said to have played a major role in the raid, in which terrorists stormed into Israel on hang gliders before killing 1,200 people.
The bloody conflict between Hamas and Israel rages on.
Israeli forces engaged in heavy fighting with Hamas in southern Gaza on Wednesday after reaching the heart of the city of Khan Younis, forcing Palestinian civilians to seek refuge elsewhere as the number of safe areas dwindles.
Israeli warplanes also bombed targets in the densely populated coastal area in one of the heaviest phases of fighting in the two months since Israel began its military campaign to eliminate the Palestinian militant group.
Many of the dead in Gaza are women and children
Israel said its forces had hit hundreds of targets, including a militant cell near a school in the north
Palestinian civilians have been forced to seek refuge elsewhere as the number of safe areas in the Gaza Strip dwindles
Palestinian medics said hospitals were overflowing with dead and wounded
Palestinian medics said hospitals were overflowing with dead and wounded, including many women and children, and supplies were running low.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced people expelled from the north sought shelter in the dwindling number of places designated as safe areas by Israel.
After gaining largely control of northern Gaza, Israeli troops and tanks pushed further south and surrounded Khan Younis in the south after a weeklong ceasefire collapsed last week.
Israel said its forces had hit hundreds of targets, including a militant cell near a school in the north. Hamas’ armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said the fighting was fierce.
Residents said Israeli bombing intensified overnight, killing and wounding an unspecified number of people, and that tanks were fighting Palestinian militants north and east of Khan Younis.
Tanks were stationed on the edge of the Khan Younis refugee camp, not far from the home of Hamas leader in Gaza Yehya Al-Sinwar, they said. It was unclear whether anyone was present.