Israel Defense Forces ✔

IDF: Overnight (Saturday), the IDF and ISA carried out a strike in an attempt to eliminate the terrorist Ali Ahmed Al-Amoudi, the deputy chairman of the political bureau in the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip. The strike was carried out while the terrorist was in an apartment used by the Hamas terrorist organization for terror activities. This is yet another example of the Hamas terrorist organization’s use of the civilian population as cover and its cynical use of civilians as human shields to advance terrorist activities. The terrorist Al-Amoudi served as Yahya Sinwar’s right-hand man and personal assistant and was involved in the decision-making surrounding the October 7th Massacre. In the past, he took part in the Judea and Samaria terror attack in which four Israelis were murdered in 1993 and in the killing of ISA officer Noam-Menahem Cohen, who fell during operational activity in Ramallah in 1994. Today, Al-Amoudi is the most senior Hamas figure in the Gaza Strip and is directly involved in Hamas's terror activities and in rebuilding the organization for war. The terrorist was struck in order to remove the threat. Prior to the aerial strike, steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions. The results of the strike are under review.