Israel killed a Hamas commander who led terrorists during the Oct. 7 attacks, the country's military said Monday.
"ELIMINATED: Adil Mismah, the Nukhba Company Commander of Deir al-Balah who took part in Hamas’s October 7 invasion and massacre and attack on other communities surrounding Gaza," the Israel Defense Forces posted on X, formerly Twitter, Monday. The Nukhba force is a highly trained unit of Hamas's military wing.
The IDF also said in the post that it hit targets that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad used for fighting and that it "eliminated" terrorists who attacked Israeli troops with mortars and rockets.
During Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, which killed about 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, Mismah led terrorists into Kibbutz Kissufim and directed other fighters toward communities including Be'eri and Nirim, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Hamas terrorists took hostages in raids on those three communities. Shlomo Mansour, an 85-year-old, Iraqi-born resident of Kissufim, remains in captivity. Seventy-nine-year-old Hannah Perry of Nirim was released as part of a late-November truce between Israel and Hamas, as was 13-year-old Gali Tarshansky of Be'eri, whose 15-year-old brother, Lior, was killed by terrorists in their home.