On Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces stated, Israel eliminated the head of Hamas’s paragliding unit and a commander in the terror group’s elite Nukhba Force, both of whom were involved in the October 7 attacks.
The Israel Defense Forces reported that Salah Dahham, the leader of Hamas’s paragliding unit, was killed in Jabaliya , a northern Gaza area where Hamas has been attempting to regroup. Dahham had orchestrated Hamas’s aerial infiltration into southern Israel during the October 7 attack.
A separate airstrike the Israel Defense Forces killed Fehmi Salmi, a Nukhba Force commander. According to the army, Salmi was operating inside a building previously used as a school. On October 7, Salmi led an attack on an IDF outpost near the Gaza border in which 14 soldiers were killed. He led multiples attacks on soldiers inside Gaza since then.
At least 1,200 people were eliminated, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities on the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 97 remaining hostages, more than 30 have been declared dead. Hamas has also been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.
