The Hamas terrorist who killed surveillance soldier Corporal Noa Marciano while she was being held captive in Gaza has been eliminated, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Wednesday.
The strike on a group of terrorists, including Muhammad Issam Hassan al-Habil, was reported to have followed an overnight Hamas attack that wounded IDF troops in northern Gaza, in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Al-Habil, a top Hamas cell commander, was killed in the airstrike in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, the IDF said in a statement.
“In response to the blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement overnight, earlier today (Wednesday), the IDF and the ISA struck and eliminated the terrorist Muhammad Issam Hassan al-Habil, head of a terrorist cell of Hamas,” the IDF confirmed.
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The bodies of Noa Marciano (pictured) and Yehudit Weiss were discovered by the IDF in the vicinity of Shifa hospital last year.
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The IDF also said that through an interrogation by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA), al-Habil had brutally killed Marciano, aged 19, while he was in the captivity of Hamas.
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The IDF soldier was abducted from the Nahal Oz outpost during the massacre of the terrorist organization on October 7.
She was injured in an IDF airstrike on November 9, 2023, while she was being held by Hamas and was later taken to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. At the time, Hamas claimed that Marciano died in an Israeli airstrike.
Her body was eventually recovered by Israeli forces in November 2023 and returned to Israel for burial in Modi’in, where she had lived with her family.
After the announcement of al-Habil’s death, Marciano’s mother, Adi Marciano, said the family was promised that anyone involved in her daughter’s murder would be brought to justice, according to The Times of Israel.
“There’s no real comfort in that,” she said. “But there is a knowledge that justice has been done, even if only partially. Nothing will bring Noa back to us.”
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Noa Marciano, 19 years old, was abducted from the outpost of Nahal Oz during the massacre of October 7 and was later killed in Shifa Hospital.
“This elimination brings closure to the Marciano family, and to the IDF and the ISA,” the IDF said.
“The IDF and the ISA will continue to operate against any terrorist involved in the brutal massacre of October 7 and against any attempt by terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip to carry out terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians.”
Israeli forces were responding to several security incidents overnight, including attacks on IDF troops when al-Habil was killed.
Around 1 am, terrorists opened fire on IDF forces in the Daraj Tuffah area, seriously injuring a reserve officer.
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IDF troops returned fire and carried out additional attacks in the area to eliminate the threat.
In the attack, the suspects were identified approaching the yellow line south of Khan Younis and were considered a threat to the troops. The suspects were subsequently hit, the IDF said.
Besides al-Habil, those killed included Bilal Abu Assi, commander of the Hamas Nukhba platoon that led the massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October.
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Abu Assi was believed to have taken part in keeping dead hostages in captivity while directing terrorist plots against IDF troops.
Ali Raziana, commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization was also killed, according to the IDF.
Original article source: Hamas terrorist who killed IDF soldier Noa Marciano eliminated in Gaza