Mansour Sami Mahmoud Shahtout, a Hamas naval police commander, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The strike targeted him and two other armed operatives in a vehicle.
The IDF stated that Shahtout had recently worked to advance attacks on Israeli troops. He was photographed celebrating on October 7 next to a captured IDF tank.
The military said the three operatives were traveling armed and posed a threat to IDF forces. A separate strike killed a Hamas tunnel expert in Khan Younis.