The Hebrew newspaper Ma'ariv: IDF spokesman: The IDF assassinated last week (Thursday) in the southern Gaza Strip, killing Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed Baraka, a member of the elite unit in the military wing of Hamas. The friend participated in the kidnapping of several Israeli citizens during the attack on October 7, including the dead Alexander Danzig from Kibbutz Nir Oz. He also contributed during the war to the arrest of many prisoners, including Nimrod Cohen in the southern Gaza Strip.
In an assassination in the north of the Gaza Strip last Friday, the IDF killed two more members of the military wing of Hamas: Omar Awadallah, the leader of the elite faction, and Mu'tez Mahmoud Muhammad al-Nimr, one of the members of the elite**. Throughout the war, and especially recently, they sought to carry out military operations against IDF forces and Israeli civilians, and worked to restore the capabilities of the Hamas movement, while systematically violating the ceasefire. They were targeted in the air to remove the threat they posed.