The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) introduced Saturday that it had killed Hamas commander Wissam Farhat, who was concerned in planning the October 7 terror assault and had been concerned in terrorism in opposition to Israel for nearly three many years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised that Israel will kill each Hamas member concerned within the October 7 assault.
Farhat was arrested in 1995 whereas driving a truck stuffed with explosives to be used in a terror assault in opposition to Israel. Hamas claimed later that he had divulged the placement of one other Hamas commander in Gaza Metropolis, who was later killed in an explosion.
As soon as he was launched from jail in Israel, Farhat discovered his means again into the group, and was chargeable for the deaths of each Israeli troopers and Israeli civilians.
In a press release, the IDF and the Israel Safety Company [ISA] stated:
Earlier at this time, following exact IDF and ISA intelligence, IAF fighter jets eradicated Hamas’ Shejaiya Battalion Commander, Wessam Farhat.
Farhat started his command over the battalion in 2010 and commanded it throughout Operation “Protecting Edge” – throughout which he ordered terrorists to focus on IDF troopers in Shejaiya, together with a twin assault that resulted within the deaths of six IDF troopers.
He took half within the planning of the October seventh bloodbath, throughout which, he directed Hamas “Nuhkba” terrorists to infiltrate the Nahal Oz Kibbutz and IDF put up. As well as, Farhat was one of many masterminds of the 2002 terror assault on Mechinat Atzmona, during which 5 Israeli civilians had been killed. Furthermore, he was one of many masterminds of the anti-tank missile terror assault on a civilian bus in Nahal Oz in 2011, during which an Israeli youngster was killed.
In 1995, whereas he was on his approach to perform a suicide assault in Israel, Farhat was apprehended by safety forces and imprisoned in an Israeli jail for ten years. Following his return to Gaza, he labored in rocket manufacturing for the Hamas terrorist group.
Because the starting of the battle, the IDF and ISA have considerably degraded the Shejaiya Battalion’s capabilities, together with the elimination of their senior commanders and the placing of terror infrastructure and weapons.
Israel resumed its Gaza offensive after Hamas broke a seven-day truce on Friday morning. There are nonetheless regarded as 136 hostages held by Hamas and different terror organizations in Gaza — together with some ladies, whom Hamas says are troopers.
The destiny of the Bibas household — a mom, a four-year-old, and a child — remains to be unknown, although Hamas has claimed they’re useless.
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