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The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned it eradicated Hamas commander Anas Muhammad Ibrahim Hamed, who infiltrated Israel and took part within the Oct. 7 Nova Music Pageant Bloodbath.
Hamed was killed throughout a focused Monday strike in Gaza, the IDF introduced Tuesday.
“The IDF struck yesterday within the heart of the Gaza Strip and eradicated Ans Muhammad Ibrahim Hamed, Nukhba commander within the Hamas terror group, who raided the territory of the State of Israel and the Nova competition through the murderous bloodbath on October 7,” the IDF wrote in a Tuesday morning put up on X.
The IDF known as Hamed an “speedy risk to IDF forces working within the Gaza Strip,” and mentioned he was “eradicated in a exact airstrike.”
ISRAEL ANNOUNCES IT KILLED ONE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF THE OCT. 7 ATTACKS
A poster of Hamas Nukhba commander Anas Muhammad Ibrahim Hamed, who the Israel Protection Forces declare to have eradicated Monday Could 4, 2026. (Israel Protection Forces)
The IDF mentioned it has forces “deployed within the space in accordance with the settlement and can proceed to function to take away any speedy risk.”
Nukhba, which is Arabic for elite, are the special forces for the Al-Qassam Brigades, which is Hamas’ army wing.
Each models had been instrumental within the Oct. 7 bloodbath. The Al-Qassam Brigades deliberate and executed the assault, in response to the IDF and the Counter Extremism Project. Of the 6,000 terrorists who invaded Israel through the assault, greater than 3,800 had been Nukhba fighters, the IDF acknowledged in an August 2024 assessment.
The Oct. 7 assault resulted within the deaths of greater than 1,300 Israelis and prompted a sprawling Israeli military campaign in Gaza. Throughout this marketing campaign, the IDF eradicated two commanders of the Al-Qassam Brigades and quite a few different members of the group’s army management.
Palestinian Hamas fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades take part in a army parade close to the border within the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2023, marking the anniversary of the 2014 battle with Israel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
A July 2024 focused strike killed then-Al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif. In Could 2025, one other airstrike killed his substitute, Mohammad Sinwar.
The newest Israeli strike in Gaza comes just below seven months after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump in October. The IDF accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire in February through the use of ambulances to move terrorists and weapons across the Gaza Strip.
Hamas has also accused Israel of violating the ceasefire with each day airstrikes.
Fox Information’ Trey Yingst asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio final week if Hamas’ refusal to place down its weapons would immediate the Trump administration to help Israel resuming fight operations in Gaza.
Conflict Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio wait as President Donald Trump prepares to handle the Knesset in Jerusalem on Oct. 13, 2025. Trump visited Israel hours after Hamas launched some Israeli hostages as a part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal within the Gaza battle. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
“Let’s hope we will keep away from that. That’s not the result we wish,” Rubio advised Yingst. “The end result we wish is for Hamas to be demilitarized and a Palestinian security force backed by a world safety drive is ready to safe Gaza.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the IDF and the White House for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Fox Information’ Yonat Friling contributed to this report.
