The war between Hamas and IsraelDossier Ali Qadi, identified as the Hamas commander behind last weekend’s attack on the Israeli population near the Gaza Strip, was reportedly killed in an airstrike.
Israel announced this Saturday that it had targeted a Hamas leader identified as the one who carried out the October 7 attack. “According to accurate information from the army and internal security services, IDF aircraft killed Ali Qadi, company commander of the Nukhba command. [«élite» en arabe, ndlr] Hamas, which carried out the terrorist attack in Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip last weekend,” a military spokesman told the press.
Ali Qadi led the inhumane and barbaric massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7th.
We simply eliminated it.
All Hamas terrorists will suffer the same fate.– IDF (@IDF_IDF) October 14, 2023
According to this Israeli source, Ali al-Qadi, 37, is from Ramallah in the West Bank. He was reportedly arrested in 2005 after the kidnapping and murder of Israeli civilians and was released on October 18, 2011 as part of the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for soldier Gilad Shalit. After years of negotiations, Israeli authorities agreed to the release of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in Israel in exchange for the release of French-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas on June 25, 2006. Ali al-Qadi would then have been expelled to the Gaza Strip.
According to AFP, Hamas confirmed that Ali Qadi was the commander of the “Nukhba” unit, but a source within the organization refused to comment on his death and did not provide any information about his fate. The Islamist movement’s October 7 attack, classified as “terrorist” by the European Union and the United States, resulted in the deaths of more than 1,300 Israelis, mostly civilians, 3,200 injured and 120 civilians held hostage in the Gaza Strip Information from the Israeli authorities. Eight days later, the loss of life in the bombed Gaza Strip on the Palestinian side totaled 2,215 dead and 8,714 injured.