IDF slays Hamas platoon chief who held hostages after Oct. 7

IDF slays Hamas platoon chief who held hostages after Oct. 7 October 31, 2026 Hamas terrorist Ihab Jamil Abu Taqiya. (IDF)(IDF)IDF slays Hamas platoon chief who held hostages after Oct. 7 Tweet Join Group Join WhatsApp Group Email https://worldisraelnews.com/idf-slays-hamas-platoon-chief-who-held-hostages-after-oct-7/ Also on Friday, the IDF said it dismantled two weapons storage facilities used by Hamas’s “military” wing in the Bureij and Gaza City areas. By JNS The Israel Defense Forces said on Friday that it eliminated the previous day, in the Nuseirat camp area in the central Gaza Strip, a Hamas platoon commander who took part in holding “numerous hostages” at the beginning of the war begun by the Hamas-led cross-border attacks on the northwestern Negev on Oct. 7, 2023. The terrorist, Ihab Jamil Abu Taqiya, held, among others, Noa Argamani, Ohad Ben Ami, Emily Hand, Maxim Herkin, Almog Meir Jan, Segev Kalfon, Andrey Kozlov, Alexander Lobanov—who was murdered by his captors in a tunnel in Rafah on Aug. 29, 2024—Yosef Haim Ohana, Raya Rotem, Hila Rotem Shoshani and Shlomi Ziv, according to the IDF. Ibrahim Gihad Muhammad Abu Oshaiba, a platoon commander in Hamas’s “military” wing...