Israeli forces eliminated Mu’min Ahmad Salama Ay, a terrorist within the military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization who was directly involved in holding Israeli hostages captive during the war, in an airstrike in Gaza City on Tuesday.
According to a formal statement released by the IDF Spokesperson, the targeted operative played an active role in detaining and guarding hostages within the Gaza City sector. In addition to his role in holding captives, he served as a key operative and operational assistant to senior commanders within Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade.
The military further disclosed that in recent weeks, the terrorist had been actively working to rehabilitate the organization’s combat capabilities and advance new terror schemes targeting Israeli forces and civilians, in systematic violation of the ceasefire understandings. Following these hostile activities, he was eliminated in an aerial strike to remove the immediate operational threat.
The IDF stressed that Southern Command forces remain actively deployed in the sector in accordance with operational arrangements, and will continue to take immediate kinetic action to neutralize any emerging threats to the State of Israel.