[NY Post] An elite Hamas commander who led one of the most horrific attacks on Israeli kibbutzim Oct. 7, 2023, was killed in a targeted strike in southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Force announced Tuesday.
Abd al-Hadi Sabah, the head of the terror group’s Nukhba platoon in Hamas’s West Khan Younis Battalion, was wiped out during an intelligence-based attack in a Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, according to military officials.
Officials said measures were taken to minimize civilian harm during the operation, led by the IDF and the Israel Security Agency.
"The IDF and ISA will continue to operate against all of the terrorists who took part in the murderous October 7 massacre," The IDF posted on X on Tuesday, along with a photo of Sabah in Israel during the terrorist attack.
Sabah was responsible for leading the invasion of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a community located fewer than 2 miles from the Gaza border fence and where dozens of civilians were murdered and scores more taken hostage, according to the IDF.
Survivors were evacuated after the devastation and are now living in temporary housing about an hour away in Kiryat Gat.
The terrorist leader also led numerous attacks against Israeli troops in Gaza since the Jewish state was ambushed last year, the IDF stated.
Along with Sabah, the IDF also announced it killed Anas Muhammad Masri, commander of the northern sector of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket unit, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Masri had been actively commanding rocket fire from northern Gaza into Israel, according to the IDF, which described him as a "significant figure responsible for executing numerous terrorist operations, managing and directing actions by the organization that targeted Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers."
Hamas murdered more than 1,200 people — mostly civilians, including women and children — and kidnapped another 251 in the 2023 terrorist attack. 
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