Overview

• The IDF and Shin Bet announced the killing of Hassan Mahmoud Hassan Hussein in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
• Officials identified him as a Nukhba company commander in Hamas’s al-Bureij Battalion within the Central Camps Brigade.
• Israeli statements link him to directing the massacre at the roadside shelter near Re’im on October 7 and to the abduction of Israeli civilians.
• The military said he worked closely with Muhammad Abu Atiwi, a fellow commander tied to the same assault who was killed in October 2024.
• Survivors Eliya Cohen and Ziv Avod, who were at the shelter during the attack, publicly welcomed the announcement and described it as closing a painful circle.