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Two Hamas terrorists, including a commander, who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, and were responsible for the abduction of hostages, were killed in separate recent airstrikes, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet announced on Tuesday.
According to the military, a strike on Saturday in Gaza City killed Adham Ibrahim Shaaban Nasman, who served as chief of operations in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade.
Nasman previously served as a commander of a Nukhba Force battalion, and during the October 7 onslaught, “he commanded and directed the infiltration into the State of Israel by Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade,” the IDF said.
The military said that throughout the war, Nasman was responsible for holding numerous hostages in Hamas captivity, including Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Ziv and Gali Berman, Eitan Mor, Matan Angrest and Omri Miran.
Additionally, the IDF said Nasman also previously served as the intelligence officer in the Gaza City Brigade and commander of the Shati Battalion. In those roles, he led numerous attacks on IDF troops and Israel.
Recently, the IDF said, Nasman tried to recruit and train terrorists in the Gaza City Brigade, as well as advance production and distribution of weapons, in an attempt to rebuild Hamas “while violating the ceasefire agreement.” He was therefore targeted.
Damari reacted to Nasman’s death in a social media post, calling him a “monster” and a “serious figure” in the terror group.
“So many of the brutal terrorists we encountered aspired to be like him. They were all evil, some at high levels and some at lower levels. Now they’re not talking about us on the phone. They’re burning together in the fires of hell… God willing, more will join them,” the former hostage wrote.
Additionally, a Hamas terrorist who took part in abducting Nurit Cooper, Amiram Cooper and Alexander Dancyg from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 was killed in a strike on Sunday, the IDF announced.
The strike in the southern Gaza Strip killed Osama Kamal Shehadeh Abu Teim, a commander of a cell in Hamas’s military wing.
On October 7, Abu Teim raided Nir Oz and took part in abducting the three hostages, according to the military.
The IDF said that during the war and recently, Abu Teim acted to advance attacks on troops and Israeli civilians, and he was therefore 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 onslaught, saying almost every time that they posed a threat to Israeli forces. Some of those strikes have also come alongside civilian casualties.
On Monday, the army said it had killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who participated in the massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7 and took hostage Inbar Haiman, who was killed that day.
In an interview with the Ynet news site on Tuesday, Inbar’s father Chaim Haiman said the news was “a kind of consolation, a closing of the circle that justice has been done.”
“These are moments of happiness within the darkness,” he said.
Terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages during the 2023 massacre of southern communities.
Separately, Hamas-affiliated media outlets in Gaza reported that six people were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Gaza City on Tuesday morning.
Medics cited by the reports said the Israeli strike on the family house in the Sabra neighborhood killed a man, Firas Al-Masri, his wife, Salsabeel, and their three daughters and son.
A military source told The Times of Israel that the IDF had targeted a terrorist and that the results of the strike are still being assessed.
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.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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