


Israeli troops killed a Hamas commander who helped lead the Oct. 7 terror attack that killed some 1,200 people and saw about 240 others taken hostage.
Adil Mismah, the Nukhba Company Commander of the city of Deir al-Balah, was “eliminated,” Israeli Defense Forces wrote on X Monday.
Mismah had led terrorists into the Kibbutz Kissufim and ordered other gunmen to ravage the communities of Nirim and Be’eri, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The commander was slain in an airstrike directed by Israeli ground troops, officials said.
The IDF said troops also “struck Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror targets” in Shejaiya and located a large cache of weapons as well as destroying a launch post and “eliminating” a terror cell that had attacked Israeli troops.
A Khan Yunis rocket launcher was also taken down by the IDF, as the Israeli Navy took aim at Gaza targets, officials said Monday morning.
Israel has said its war in the disputed territory will last for months to come, resisting international calls for a prolonged cease-fire.
More than 21,800 people in Gaza have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
The ministry, which does not differentiate between civilian and military casualties, says two-thirds of the victims are women and children.
Israel has claimed that more than 8,000 of the slain Palestinians are terrorists. Neither side has provided evidence to back up their death toll claims.
The vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced as the humanitarian crisis dragged on, with more than a half million people starving due to a lack of food being delivered to the region, according to the United Nations.