IDF & ISA Forces Eliminate Hamas' North Khan Yunis Battalion Commander

Joint IDF and ISA announcement:

IDF soldiers, based on IDF and ISA intelligence, killed the Commander of the North Khan Yunis Battalion of the Hamas terrorist organization, Taysir Mubasher. In the past, he served as the Commander of Hamas' naval forces and held several positions in weapons manufacturing.

Mubasher has extensive experience in the military and as a commander, directing terror attacks, and he is a relative to senior Hamas operatives, including Mohammed Deif, the supreme commander of the military wing of Hamas.

Mubasher was responsible for numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers throughout the years including the terror attack in "Atzmona" Mechina, in which five of the Mechina students were killed and several more were injured.

Furthermore, intelligence shows that Mubasher manufactured the explosive devices used to explode a tunnel under an IDF post in Gush Katif in 2004, which killed an IDF soldier and injured several more, In addition, Mubasher directed the terror attack in the Vered Post in 2003, and was involved in the infiltration into Zikim beaches during Operation "Protective Edge".

During the war, 300 rockets and mortar shells were launched from Khan Yunis toward Israeli territory.