Overview
- The IDF, which announced the strike Tuesday, said a precise airstrike in central Gaza killed Nukhba commander Anas Muhammad Ibrahim Hamed on Monday.
- Israel described Hamed as a leader who crossed into Israel and reached the Nova music festival during the Oct. 7 attacks.
- The military said he posed an imminent threat to troops and that aerial surveillance and precise munitions were used to reduce civilian harm.
- IDF forces in the Southern Command remain deployed under the ceasefire and will continue actions to neutralize immediate threats, according to the statement.
- Nukhba is Hamas’ elite commando unit tied to the Oct. 7 assault that killed about 1,200 people and led to 251 abductions.