Latest developments Israeli military and Shin Bet say one of the Hamas commanders who orchestrated the October 7 attack has been killed in an airstrike
Latest developments:
Israel says its forces battled Hamas militants and attacked the group’s tunnel network in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday with a flurry of airstrikes. At least 50 deaths were reported in one strike near the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
‘There was a very senior Hamas commander in that area,’ Israeli army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht told CNN, confirming the strike. ‘We’re looking into it, and we’ll be coming out with more data as we learn what happened there.’
Israel has accused Hamas of using civilian buildings as cover and said Israeli strikes have killed a number of Hamas fighters. The country also reported its first military deaths: two soldiers killed in northern Gaza.
Bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on houses in Jabalia refugee camp, lie at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, Oct. 31, 2023.
With no end in sight to the current fighting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls from around the world for a cease-fire.
Earlier, Israel said it carried out an airstrike that killed one of the Hamas commanders who orchestrated the deadly October 7 terror attack on southern Israel. The Hamas attack killed 1,400 people.
The Israeli Defense Force and Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service said Nasim Abu Ajina was commander of the Beit Lahia Battalion of Hamas’ Northern Brigade and took part in the development of the unmanned aerial vehicles and paragliders involved in the brazen invasion.
The IDF also said its combined air and ground forces struck approximately 300 targets over the last 24 hours, including anti-tank missile and underground rocket launch posts, as well as military compounds inside Hamas’ underground tunnels.
