{"id":536645,"date":"2026-07-11T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/536645\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:53:11","slug":"israel-has-slain-2561-terrorists-who-invaded-on-oct-7-report-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/536645\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel has slain 2,561 terrorists who invaded on Oct. 7\u2014report – Israel & Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

(July 11, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n

Israeli security forces have eliminated 2,561 terrorists from the Gaza Strip who took part in the Hamas-led attacks on Israel\u2019s south on Oct. 7, 2023, broadcaster Channel 12 reported on Friday night.<\/p>\n

This includes roughly a thousand who were killed in skirmishes in the northwestern Negev as Israeli forces battled to regain control of the region in the first week of the invasion.<\/p>\n

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) estimates that several hundred terrorists who participated in the atrocities are still alive, adding that the hunt for them continues, the report read.<\/p>\n

The unit tasked with hunting down the perpetrators was formed in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror rampage and includes elements from the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet.<\/p>\n

The unit was named after the World War I-era Jewish underground organization Nili, an acronym for a biblical phrase (1 Samuel 15:29) that translates as \u201cthe Eternal One of Israel will not lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was given the operational responsibility to kill all those who took part in the massacre, as a principled decision made by the Israeli government.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the IDF announced it had killed a Hamas Nukhba<\/a> cell commander who infiltrated the Re\u2019im military base on Oct. 7. Yahya Hamdan was killed in a precise airstrike in southern Gaza on Thursday, the military said.<\/p>\n

In a separate announcement on Thursday, the IDF and Shin Bet said they had killed another Hamas terrorist who infiltrated Israel during the Oct. 7 massacre, abducted Israeli civilians and later helped hold them captive in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

The military said Waheed Abu Salam crossed into Israel during the Oct. 7 attack, participated in the kidnapping of Israeli civilians and was involved in holding hostages in southern Gaza throughout the war. He was killed in a joint IDF-Shin Bet airstrike in southern Gaza on Tuesday, according to the joint statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 11, 2026 \/ JNS) Israeli security forces have eliminated 2,561 terrorists from the Gaza Strip who took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-536645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536645","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=536645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}