New Delhi, June 7 -- Two and a half years after the raid that brought Hamas into Kisufim, one of the men who led it is dead.

a cell commander in Hamas's Nukhba special force - was killed in a targeted strike in the southern Gaza Strip carried out the previous Tuesday. Abu Karim was among the leaders of the October 7, 2023, infiltration of the Kisufim area, the military said, where 20 people were killed in Hamas's assault on that day.

The announcement added a detail that shifted the killing from a retrospective reckoning into something more immediate: in the months before the strike, Abu Karim had been actively working to rebuild Hamas's military capacity in southern Gaza, maintaining what the IDF described as a large weapons cache at hi...