The Hebrew newspaper Ma'ariv: IDF spokesman: The IDF assassinated yesterday, Thursday, in the Nuseirat area in the center of the Gaza Strip, killing Ihab Jamil Abu Taqiyya, the leader of the group in the military wing of the Hamas movement. Abu Takia was involved in the arrest of many prisoners at the beginning of the war, including: Raya Rotem, Hila Rotem Shoshani, Emily Hand, Ohad Ben Ami, Noa Arjamani, Andrei Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv and Almog. Meir Yan, Maxim Harkin, Yosef Haim Ohana, Segev Kalfon, and the dead Alexander Lubanov. The assassination also resulted in the killing of Ibrahim Jihad Muhammad Abu Ashiba, a faction leader in the military wing of the Hamas movement. Throughout the war, and especially recently, these elements sought to carry out military operations against IDF forces and Israeli citizens, 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.