{"id":504517,"date":"2026-06-21T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504517\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:53:11","slug":"idf-shin-bet-kill-palestinian-islamic-jihad-terrorist-who-took-part-in-october-7-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504517\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF, Shin Bet kill Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who took part in October 7 massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Sunday that they killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist who participated in the kidnapping of then-12-year-old Yagil Yaakov from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-899814\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 7 massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-899225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PIJ terrorist<\/a> was identified as Zaki Youssef Mahmoud Abu Mustafa. He was killed in a strike in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the IDF and Shin Bet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Yaakov was released from terror captivity in November 2023, as part of the first wave of hostages who were freed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Mustafa, who was the Nukhba commander of the PIJ\u2019s Khan Yunis Brigade, has played a significant role in attempting to rebuild the terrorist organization\u2019s capabilities, according to the IDF and Shin Bet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He was additionally responsible for advancing a number of terrorist attacks against Israeli troops operating in Gaza and exploiting Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, attempting to train terrorists at the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In a separate strike, the IDF also killed Hamas Nukhba terrorist Mohammed Osama Abd al-Aziz Saba al-Eish.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Eish, according to the IDF, facilitated the recruitment and also advanced efforts to train new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900032\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF emphasized that the strikes were conducted with precision munitions and measures were taken before the strikes to reduce the risk of harm to nearby civilians.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the IDF announced that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-899982\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed a Hamas sniper<\/a> who had been doubling as a photojournalist for Qatari state-funded broadcaster Al Jazeera and two other Hamas terrorists in central Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Hamas sniper was identified as terrorist Ahmed Samir Muhammad Washah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Washah\u2019s brother, Muhammad Samir Muhammad Washah, a terrorist who worked in Hamas\u2019s weapons production headquarters and also posed as an Al Jazeera terrorist, was killed by the IDF in April.<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem Post Staff and James Genn contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Sunday that they killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,69,51,1031,85,46,43,6208,73,98,58],"class_list":["post-504517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-palestinian-islamic-jihad","tag-shin-bet","tag-terrorism","tag-the-october-7-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}