{"id":560010,"date":"2026-07-26T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/560010\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:32:08","slug":"gaza-strikes-kill-three-hamas-commanders-including-oct-7-terrorist-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/560010\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza strikes kill three Hamas commanders, including Oct. 7 terrorist &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (July 26, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday that it had eliminated three Hamas commanders in two separate airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including a Nukhba Force commander who took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IDF, Muhannad Asaad Mahmoud Abu Ghazal, a Nukhba Force cell commander, was killed in a strike in central Gaza on July 20. The statement said Abu Ghazal infiltrated the Kissufim area during Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attack.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate strike on July 21 in the northern Strip, the IDF eliminated Raed Hani Mohammed Al-Amsi, who commanded an aerial surveillance platoon in Hamas\u2019s Aerial Array, the military stated.<\/p>\n<p>The same strike also killed Nabhan Mohammed Nabhan Al-Amsi, head of the Military Intelligence Desk in Hamas\u2019s Gaza Brigade, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the war and in recent months, the terrorists operated to advance terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians,\u201d the statement added. \u201cThe terrorists were eliminated in precise aerial strikes in order to remove the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The military said it took steps to reduce harm to noncombatants before conducting the strikes, including using precision-guided munitions and aerial surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the IDF said it struck and dismantled weapons storage facilities, a weapons manufacturing site and underground terrorist infrastructure in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/idf-shin-bet-target-hamas-sites-across-gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Gaza Strip<\/a> belonging to Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The storage facilities contained Kalashnikov rifles, RPG launchers, mortar shells, explosive devices and additional military equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hamas terrorist organization continues to systematically and flagrantly violate the ceasefire agreement while attempting to rebuild its military capabilities and terrorist infrastructure,\u201d the army added.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces remain deployed in Gaza in accordance with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement and will continue to eliminate any immediate threats, the Saturday statement stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The current truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, 2025, ending the two-year war that began when Hamas, other Palestinian terrorist groups and Gazan \u201ccivilians\u201d invaded the northwestern Negev on Oct. 7, 2023. The terms of the first phase leave the Israel Defense Forces in control of over half of Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 26, 2026 \/ JNS) The Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday that it had eliminated three Hamas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-560010","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\/560010","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=560010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}