The IDF revealed on Friday evening the identities of a further eight terrorists killed by an Israeli airstrike while they were operating from within an UNRWA school in Nusierat on Thursday.
The terrorists had been from both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The identities of the further eight terrorists killed were confirmed by the IDF Intelligence Directorate and the Shin Bet (Israel Intelligence Agency), the military noted.
Who were the terrorists killed?
One of the eliminated terrorists was confirmed to have taken part in Hamas’s October 7 attacks, where over 1200 people were killed and another 250 kidnapped.
A total of 17 of the terrorists eliminated in the strike have now been identified. The IDF released the identities of 9 other terrorists eliminated.
Hamas claimed that 45 people were killed in the strike.
IDF spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari had said the strike was conducted after concrete intelligence showed that terrorists hiding in the school were planning an imminent attack. “We stopped a ticking time-bomb,” he explained.
“Our intelligence indicated that the terrorists were operating from inside these three classrooms,” he had said. “We delayed our strike twice because we identified civilians in the area. We had aerial surveillance that had been monitoring the Hamas compound for a few days.
“We conducted the strike once our intelligence and surveillance indicated that there were no women or children inside the Hamas compound, inside those classrooms,” Hagari added. “Despite the complex operational conditions, our Air Force used precise munitions to target the three specific classrooms that the terrorists were hiding inside.”
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