Israel eradicated the top of Hamas’s paragliding unit and a commander within the terror group’s elite Nukhba Pressure, each of whom participated within the October 7 assaults, the Israel Protection Forces stated on Wednesday.
The IDF stated it killed Salah Dahham, the top of Hamas’s paragliding unit, within the space of Jabaliya, an space of northern Gaza the place Hamas has been attempting to regroup. In the course of the October 7 assault, Dahham led Hamas’s aerial infiltration into southern Israel.
A separate airstrike eradicated Fehmi Salmi, a Nukhba Pressure commander. The military stated he was working inside a constructing beforehand used as a college. On October 7, Salmi led an assault on an IDF outpost on the Gaza border by which 14 troopers had been killed. He led quite a few assaults on troopers inside Gaza since then.
At the very least 1,200 individuals had been killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners had been taken hostage in Hamas’s assaults on Israeli communities close to the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 97 remaining hostages, greater than 30 have been declared useless.
Hamas has additionally been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the our bodies of two troopers killed in 2014.