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The Israel Defense Forces eliminated Hamas terrorist Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, who took part in the abduction of Yarden Bibas from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7.

Bibas was held in captivity for 484 days before being freed on February 1, having lost 33 pounds. His wife, Shiri, and their two sons—Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months—were kidnapped separately.

Their captors later murdered Shiri and the children, afterward claiming they had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. On February 20, Hamas returned the bodies of Kfir, Ariel and, purportedly, Shiri, but the remains turned out to be those of an unidentified woman. Shiri’s body was eventually returned following public pressure.

Meanwhile, on August 13, the IDF killed Muhammad Naif Abu Shamala, a company commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force, the military confirmed on Tuesday.

Shamala infiltrated Israel on October 7 and took part in the attempted assault on the IDF’s Ma’aras Post. During the war, he was involved in planning and advancing multiple attacks against Israeli troops and the state.