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A Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who participated in the massacre at the Nova music festival during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, and took hostage Inbar Haiman, was killed in an Israeli strike over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF said the strike on Friday in the central Gaza Strip killed Taher Ahmad Salem Abd al-Wahed, who, on October 7, “infiltrated the Nova music festival and commanded” Haiman’s kidnapping.
The IDF’s announcement came as Hamas-affiliated media reported on Monday that five people were killed in two separate Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, including in a bombing that hit a hospital and another that targeted a vehicle. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on the incidents.
Haiman, 27, from Haifa, was captured and murdered by terrorists while fleeing the music festival, and her body was taken to Gaza. Her remains were returned to Israel by Hamas in October 2025. Terrorists killed 361 people at the festival among the 1,200 who were killed during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that day. Dozens of festival-goers were taken hostage.
In a separate strike in central Gaza, another Islamic Jihad operative, Salah Subhi Salah Qatrawi, was killed, the IDF said.
Qatrawi had attempted to advance attacks on troops near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites during the war, according to the military. The GHF was an Israeli- and US-backed organization that worked to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza for several months during 2025, in a bid to bypass Hamas. Palestinians were regularly reported killed surrounding its distribution sites, and it has since ceased operations.
Recently, both Islamic Jihad operatives attempted to advance “imminent” attacks on IDF troops and Israeli civilians, the military added, and therefore were targeted.
The IDF in recent months has ramped up strikes on terror operatives in Gaza, including numerous terrorists who took part in the October 7 attack, saying almost every time that they posed a threat to Israeli forces. Those strikes have also come alongside civilian casualties.
On Monday, Hamas-affiliated media outlets in Gaza reported that the IDF struck Al-Yaman Al-Saeed Hospital, a small hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to the reports, two people were killed, including a woman, and 16 others were wounded, among them women and children.
Aircraft fired two missiles into the first floor of the hospital, local sources told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, based in the West Bank.
Earlier, Hamas-affiliated media outlets in Gaza reported that three people were killed and several others were wounded in a strike on a vehicle in the Mawasi area near Khan Younis, in the southwestern Gaza Strip.
At least 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since a ceasefire took effect in October 2025, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. That toll is unverified and does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, though the Israeli military has said that Hamas’s overall figure is largely accurate.
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