An Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip Wednesday killed a Hamas Nukhba Force commander who led the massacre and kidnapping of Israelis from a roadside bomb shelter near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7, the army and Shin Bet announced Thursday, Paralel.Az reports citing Times of Israel.

According to the military, Muhammad Abu Attawi, who served as a Nukha commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion, was also employed by the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA since July 2022.