Recently, Air Force aircraft, guided by intelligence from the Military Intelligence Directorate, the Shin Bet, and the Southern Command, successfully eliminated two senior Hamas operatives:
Muhammad Gamil Salman Basus, a top engineer in the Gaza City Brigade, and Muhammad Kamal Muhammad al-Hajj, commander of the Nuhba Company in the Zeitoun Battalion.
Basus was instrumental in planning and executing sniper attacks against Israeli forces on behalf of Hamas.
The strike also resulted in the death of Basus' brother, Mahmoud Gamil Salman Basus, a platoon commander in Hamas' Shajaiyah Battalion.
Prior to the attack, many steps were taken to reduce the chance of harming civilians, including the use of precision weapons, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence information. The IDF will continue to act with force and determination against the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip.