BREAKING: Israeli Military Kills Head Of Hamas’ Operations Who Helped To Plan October Attack
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Saturday confirmed the death of the aerial operations head of terror outfit Hamas, Abu Rukbeh.
This was announced via X platform (formerly Twitter), adding that Abu Rukbeh was responsible for managing the terror group’s drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, paragliders, aerial detection systems, and air defences.
The IDF added that he played a role in the planning and execution of the October 7 onslaught by Hamas by directing the terrorists who entered southern Israel on paragliders, as well as the drone attacks on Israel Defense Forces observation posts.
Recall that On October 14, the IDF also announced that it killed the previous head of Hamas’s aerial forces, Murad Abu Murad.
“Last night, IAF fighter jets conducted wide-scale strikes throughout the Gaza Strip. These included dozens of Hamas terror targets as well as ‘Nukhba’ terrorist operatives that were in a staging ground in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli Air Force wrote X.
On October 7, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets in Israel and its fighters invaded the southern cities and towns while killing and injuring hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians.
Apart from this, the Palestinian Hamas militants also took dozens of civilians as hostages. Following the attacks, Israel declared a state of war against Hamas, which was followed by a directive from the defence minister to the force to carry out a ‘complete siege’ of Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces said its fighter jets attacked around 150 underground sites in the northern Gaza Strip which belong to the Hamas group. It added that several Hamas terrorists were killed in the overnight attack.
Combat tunnels, underground combat spaces and other underground terrorist infrastructures were destroyed, it added.
