IDF says it killed Hamas terrorist who led massacre at Re’im shelter – an UNRWA worker
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By Emanuel Fabian,
24 October 2024, 10:11 pm
A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered in the October 7 massacre, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border, January 6, 2024 (Flash90)
An Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip Wednesday killed a Hamas Nukhba Force commander who led the massacre and kidnapping of Israelis from a roadside bomb shelter near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7, the army and Shin Bet announced Thursday.
According to the military, Muhammad Abu Attawi, who served as a Nukbha commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion, was also employed by the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA since July 2022.
During the October 7 onslaught, Attawi commanded the attack on a bomb shelter near Re’im where partygoers from the Nova festival had fled to.