Forces from the 252nd Division in Southern Command have eliminated five terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza in recent days. The strikes were carried out to remove an immediate threat after the operatives advanced various terror plots against Israeli forces in the immediate timeframe.
Among those killed were Salim Fayez Hamed Qariqa, a terrorist in Hamas’s Shuja’iyya Battalion who was involved in preparing explosives and advancing sniper attacks, and Saeed Fayez Saeed Shamali, a Nukhba team ‘commander’ in Hamas. Also eliminated was Ahmed Ali Abd al-Rahim Halas, ‘commander’ of a sniper unit in Islamic Jihad, who was advancing sniper operations against Israeli forces.
In addition, two other Hamas commanders were killed who had planted explosives to target Israeli troops. Israeli forces in Southern Command are deployed across the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue to act decisively to remove any immediate threat to Israeli civilians and soldiers.