Hamas

Hamas is expected to dissolve its governing committee in Gaza, paving the way for a technocratic administration, according to a new report.

The IDF announced that two Hamas terrorists involved in planning attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza were killed in separate precision strikes last week.

Marking 1,000 days since the war began, Defense Minister ישראל כ"ץ outlined Israel’s achievements across multiple fronts and said the IDF will remain in security zones while preparing for an independent strike on Iran if needed.

Hamas says it executed a Gaza resident accused of assisting the Shin Bet and the IDF. He was alleged to have helped in last month’s killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, head of Hamas’s military wing, and to have played a role in the killings of other Hamas operatives.

A Hamas platoon commander was killed in southern Gaza: according to the IDF and Shin Bet, Adel Jihad Mohammed Asfour was involved in advancing sniper attacks and planting explosive devices against IDF forces, and in recent days had been working to carry out immediate attacks and rebuild the terror organization’s operational capabilities.

Defense Minister ישראל כ"ץ signed sanctions orders against 37 digital wallets identified as a central part of the Revolutionary Guards’ terror-financing infrastructure. The wallets contained cryptocurrency worth more than 24 million shekels in total.

The IDF and Shin Bet said they killed the commander of Hamas’s Yibna Battalion in Rafah. According to the statement, Mohammed Fathi Abd al-Hai Abu Fakh'r had been working to rebuild the battalion, recruit operatives, and oversee weapons smuggling for years.

The IDF and Shin Bet confirmed that Talal Jaber Muhammad Abd al-Aal was killed in a strike in southern Gaza two days ago. According to the statement, he took part in the October 7 massacre in communities near Gaza and was involved in holding Israeli hostages in Gaza.

The IDF says it has completed sealing the tunnel in southern Rafah where Lt. Hadar Goldin הי"ד was held. The route, stretching more than 16 kilometers, also served as a major Hamas command center in the southern Gaza Strip.

A proposed law banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross from entering prisons where terror inmates are held was voted down in the Knesset. Thirty-six lawmakers supported it, while 41 opposed it, taking the bill off the agenda for the next six months.

The IDF and Shin Bet say they killed Zaher Braham Khalil Abu Salem, a terrorist from Islamic Jihad, in Gaza. According to Israel, he entered Israeli territory on October 7 and took part in abducting Israeli civilians. Palestinian reports also described an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah.

The IDF said that in strikes carried out last week, two terrorists from Hamas’s military wing were killed, including the head of a tunnel unit in the Khan Younis area and a Nukhba cell commander who took part in the massacre.

Twenty years after Gilad Shalit was abducted, the IDF Archive at Israel’s Defense Ministry has released, for the first time, the official operations logs from the Southern Brigade command center. The documents capture, in real time, the confusion, assessments, and growing realization that an IDF soldier had been kidnapped into the Gaza Strip.

The IDF said that in a strike on southern Gaza on Sunday, it killed Akram Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Madi, an operative in Hamas’s military wing who entered Israeli territory during the October 7 terror attack.

The IDF and the Shin Bet killed in Gaza Sabai Zaher Abd al-Hamid Abu Hasna, a *Nukhba* militant. The militant infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7 massacre and took part in holding Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov in Hamas captivity.

The two operatives were involved in advancing terror activity against IDF forces in northern Gaza. One worked in engineering and explosives, while the other led Hamas’ sniper network in Gaza City and was responsible for planning and carrying out shooting attacks on troops.

The IDF and Shin Bet said they carried out a strike in southern Gaza and killed Zaki Yusuf Mahmoud Abu Mustafa, a commander in Islamic Jihad’s Khan Younis Nukhba unit. According to the military, he took part in the October 7 attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz and in the abduction of 14-year-old Yagil Yaakov.

The IDF announced that it killed two operatives who were part of a financial network funneling money to Hamas in the Gaza Strip. According to the military, the two helped transfer more than half a billion shekels used to fund terror activity and pay salaries to operatives.

The Shin Bet and the IDF have revealed the identities of Hamas operatives working from Turkey to advance terror activity in Judea and Samaria. According to security officials, dozens of attacks foiled over the past year were directed by them through recruitment, financing, and the transfer of weapons.

Federal prosecutors say Reda Sabassi raised about $600,000 after October 7, allegedly sending funds to Hamas-linked channels and trying to move money through cryptocurrency