The Israeli military says it has killed a Hamas commander who was planning attacks on two settlements

This was reported by The Times of Israel portal on Tuesday.

The Israel Defense Forces said it killed Nisam Abu Ajin, the commander of the Beit Lahiya Battalion of Hamas, in an overnight airstrike in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

According to the military, N. Abu Ajina led Hamas fighters who carried out a bloody attack on Kibbutz Erez and Netiv Haasara on October 7.

According to the military, “his elimination is a major blow to the Hamas terrorist group’s efforts to disrupt IDF (Israel Defense Forces) ground operations” in the Gaza Strip.

After Hamas militants, who rule the Gaza Strip, invaded the territory of the Jewish state on October 7 and, according to Israeli officials, killed 1,400 people. people, mostly civilians, and took 239 hostages, Israel began a large-scale bombing campaign against the enclave.

The Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said on Monday that at least 8,306 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory since the war began.

Israel has also imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its residents with severe shortages of food, water, medicine and fuel.

Hamas is the Palestinian militant group that rules the Gaza Strip; it has been involved in several wars with Israel since taking over the Gaza Strip in 2007. The group has been recognized as a terrorist by Israel, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and some other countries.

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