{"id":116733,"date":"2026-05-16T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116733\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:19:18","slug":"idf-kills-two-hamas-terrorists-who-infiltrated-israel-during-october-7-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116733\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF kills two Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel during October 7 massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamer Iyad Muhammad Almatouk and Khaled Muhammad Salem Joudeh were killed in separate IDF strikes in the northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-896085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza Strip<\/a>, the military stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Before the strikes, the two Hamas terrorists tried to carry out attacks against Israeli troops operating in the area, posing an immediate threat and triggering the precision strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the IDF killed another Hamas terrorist in a strike in the central Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Abd al-Rahman Mahmoud Jumaa Shaafi was a terrorist in Hamas\u2019s Bureij Battalion and worked to advance attacks against Israeli troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF emphasized that before the strikes, steps were taken to reduce the risk of harm to civilians in the area, including the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, the IDF confirmed that it had killed Hamas military leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-896332\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Izz ad-Din al-Haddad<\/a> in a Friday strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Haddad was Hamas\u2019s highest-ranking military commander before his death and was the last surviving leader of the October 7 massacre. He also personally held former Gaza hostages Liri Albag and Emily Damari captive after they were kidnapped from Israel during the massacre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamer Iyad Muhammad Almatouk and Khaled Muhammad Salem Joudeh were killed in separate IDF strikes in the northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[496,2254,1411,423,37,1413],"class_list":{"0":"post-116733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-gaza-strip","10":"tag-hamas","11":"tag-idf","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-the-october-7-massacre"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116584694585035610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}