Iyad Shambari, described as a key figure in Hamas's intelligence apparatus and a planner of the October 7 massacre, was killed in a joint IDF-Shin Bet operation.
His elimination marks the latest in a systematic Israeli campaign to decapitate Hamas's military and intelligence leadership © Mena Today
The Israeli military and domestic security service Shin Bet announced Wednesday that they had eliminated Iyad Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Shambari, head of the operations department within Hamas's military intelligence headquarters.
Shambari was killed Tuesday in a joint strike carried out in northern Gaza. According to the joint statement published on X, he had held the position for several years and was considered "a key figure involved in gathering intelligence on Israeli army forces."
The two agencies also stated that Shambari had played an active role in planning the October 7, 2023 attack — the Hamas-led massacre on Israeli territory that triggered the war in Gaza and killed some 1,200 people.
His elimination marks the latest in a systematic Israeli campaign to decapitate Hamas's military and intelligence leadership.
Over the course of the conflict, Israel has targeted and killed several senior Hamas commanders, including the group's political chief Ismail Haniyeh and its military leader Yahya Sinwar.
The strike comes amid an ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza and fragile ceasefire negotiations, with Hamas's command structure increasingly degraded but the group's capacity to resist far from eliminated.
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz declared Monday that Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza for an indefinite period, in a pointed statement that makes no reference to the US-Iran framework agreement announced the same day.
Authorities in southern Lebanon warned people displaced by three months of war between Israel and Hezbollah against rushing home on Monday despite a U.S.-Iran deal to end the wider conflict, as Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the south.
Let us call it what it is. The framework agreement on Iran is not a peace deal. It is a capitulation dressed up in diplomatic language, and its most immediate victims are the two countries that have paid the highest price in blood and treasure to confront Iran's aggression: Israel and Lebanon.
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