The Israel Protection Forces on Thursday eradicated a Hamas commander who directed the kidnapping of civilians through the Palestinian terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023, bloodbath, the army mentioned on Saturday.
Walid Haniyeh, who served because the deputy commander of a Nukhba Power firm in Hamas’s “army wing,” continued to recruit and prepare terrorists through the previous two-and-a-half years of battle, in keeping with the assertion.
He infiltrated the Jewish state on Oct. 7 and offered “operational directions to the terrorist cell as they took Israeli civilians hostage into the Gaza Strip,” it acknowledged.
Haniyeh was a nephew of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, whom Israel assassinated in Tehran in July 2024, the IDF added.
The Oct. 10, 2025, truce settlement ended the two-year battle within the Gaza Strip that started when Hamas, different Palestinian terrorist teams and Gazan “civilians” invaded the northwestern Negev on Oct. 7, 2023, killing roughly 1,200 folks and taking 251 hostages.
On Friday, the IDF killed three operatives in Hamas’s naval police unit, together with the commander within the central camps sector, in keeping with an announcement on Sunday.
“Hamas’s naval police operates underneath Hamas’s army wing and advances and directs terror assaults in opposition to IDF troops and the State of Israel,” it famous.
Mansour Sami Mahmoud Shahtout and two different terrorists “have been touring in a car whereas armed with weapons, and as such posed a risk to IDF troops working within the Gaza Strip,” the military acknowledged.
In a separate airstrike on Wednesday, the IDF killed Abd al-Rahman Maher Abd al-Karim Ziyada, who commanded a Nukhba Power cell and stole an Israeli army car through the Oct. 7 assault, the army mentioned on Sunday.
In a further strike that day, the IDF eradicated Kamal Mohammad Hamdan Najjar, head of a Hamas tunnel unit within the Khan Yunis space.
The IDF mentioned that all through the battle, each operatives tried to “advance terrorist assaults in opposition to IDF troops within the Gaza Strip.”
It added, “The terrorists posed a right away risk to the troops and have been eradicated in exact strikes.”
