Jerusalem, 23 November, 2025 (TPS-IL) — The Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Sunday that it killed Alaa Hadidi, head of Hamas’s supply and equipment department, in an airstrike in Gaza on Saturday.
“Hadidi was a central knowledge center in the organization’s supply and production field and served during the war as a conduit for transferring weapons from Hamas headquarters to battalions and commanders in the field for fighting against our forces,” the IDF said.
The escalation followed a Hamas threat to end the ceasefire, triggered by a Palestinian gunman opening fire on Israeli troops in southern Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office confirmed that five senior Hamas officials were killed in the subsequent airstrikes, a move a US official said the Trump administration supports.
“The IDF will not tolerate attacks on our forces, and we will continue to target those responsible for terrorism,” an Israeli military spokesperson said.
The incident began Saturday morning when a gunman crossed the Yellow Line—the border dividing Israeli and Hamas-controlled Gaza—approaching IDF troops in a vehicle while using the humanitarian corridor. Soldiers returned fire, killing the operative. “He aimed his weapon at our soldiers, endangering civilians in the area,” the IDF stated, releasing footage of the confrontation.
Following the initial attack, Israeli warplanes struck multiple Hamas positions across Gaza. The identities of the four other senior Hamas officials killed alongside Hadidi have not been publicly disclosed. “These strikes disrupt Hamas’s ability to arm its fighters and threaten Israeli communities,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
In a related development, the IDF announced that it neutralized all 17 Palestinian terrorists who had attempted to escape from a Hamas tunnel on Israeli-controlled land in eastern Rafah. They had emerged Friday from underground hideouts and sought to return to the Hamas side of the Yellow Line.
“After a 24-hour operation, all infiltrators were either killed or captured,” the IDF said.
Around 1,200 people were killed and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive by Hamas during the October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. The bodies of two Israelis and one Thai national are still held in Gaza.
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