Joint Statement from the IDF Spokesperson and the Shin Bet Spokesperson: The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated a Nukhba cell commander and a commander in the military intelligence unit of the Hamas terror organization. The IDF attacked in northern Gaza Strip the day before yesterday.

Joint statement from theand the Shin Bet Spokesperson: The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated a Nukhba cell commander and a commander in the military intelligence unit of the Hamas terrorist organization. The IDF attacked in the northern Gaza Strip the day before yesterday and eliminated the terrorist Ahmed Yahya Ibrahim Batsch, commander of a Nukhba cell in the Hamas terrorist organization. The terrorist Batsch advanced terror routes against our forces operating in the Gaza Strip throughout the war and recently. In another attack yesterday (Sunday), the IDF eliminated the terrorist Hamouda Abu Daka in the southern Gaza Strip, a commander in the military intelligence unit of the Hamas terrorist organization. The terrorist was involved in collecting intelligence on IDF forces for the planning and execution of terror routes against our forces, and posed an immediate threat to IDF forces operating in the area. IDF forces in the Southern Command are deployed in the area according to the agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat.