The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday said it had killed a senior member of the Hamas terror group in an overnight airstrike in the Gaza Strip, reported The Times of Israel.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the airstrike killed the head of Hamas’s aerial array, Murad Abu Murad. The strike targeted a headquarters from which the terror group managed its aerial activity.
Abu Murad “took a big part in directing terrorists during the massacre” last weekend, which included attackers who entered Israel from the air on hang gliders, The Times of Israel said.
The IDF said it hit dozens of sites belonging to Hamas’s commando forces, who led the infiltration into Israel on October 7, in separate strikes overnight.
Hamas launched a wave of attacks on Israel on Saturday, killing hundreds of people, in the biggest escalation in the conflict in decades. Since then, the attack has killed more than 1,300 people in Israel while the Israeli counter-airstrikes have killed more than 1,530 people in Gaza. Israel has claimed roughly 1,500 Hamas militants were killed inside Israel
