The brothers of a northern Hamas commander killed by Israel have been captured and are now providing information to Israeli authorities, including about the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, officials said Tuesday.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told reporters that Israel is currently interrogating the brothers of Ahmed Ghandour, the former commander of Hamas’ Northern Gaza Brigade who was killed in an airstrike.
“They are already telling us much of the stories of the October 7 murders, among other things,” he said, touting the interrogations as yet another victory in northern Gaza.
Ghandour was one of five senior Hamas officials confirmed dead last week after Israel investigated a tunnel system that was destroyed by an airstrike last month.
It was the same tunnel in which Ghandour and his deputy, Wael Rajab, were photographed enjoying a meal and meeting with several other Hamas leaders inside a narrow room months earlier.
Along with Ghandour and Rajab, the airstrike killed the leader of the brigade’s aid battalion, the head of the military formation and the officer responsible for observations in the north, Israel said.
Ahmed Ghandour (center) was the commander of Hamas’s northern Gaza Brigade before he and four other senior officials were killed in an airstrike. IDF Ghandour brothers are now releasing details of Hamas’s October 7 invasion of Israel. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images
The Israel Defense Forces said Ghandour was “responsible for the direction and management of all Hamas terrorist activities in the northern Gaza Strip.”
Ghandour was just one of a dozen Hamas commanders killed recently, including those leading battalions in Beit Lahia, Jabaliya, Sabra, Shati, Darj Tapah and Shejaiya, Israel said.
During a meeting with the IDF’s 162nd Division on Tuesday, Gallant reiterated that Hamas’ control over Gaza City is “breaking,” and Jewish forces are engaging the terrorist group “deep down” in its security system. 300-mile-long tunnels beneath the Palestinian enclave. said the Times of Israel.
Israel continues to collaborate with Hamas fighters throughout Gaza. AFP via Getty Images
“These operations are also carried out on the surface, but there is also a deep descent into the depths, to find bunkers, war rooms, communications centers, ammunition depots and meeting rooms,” Gallant said.
Israel’s tunneling operations also include flooding the system with Mediterranean seawater, a strategy it began last month, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The IDF has declined to comment on its methods for destroying the “Gaza Metro,” but military chief Herzi Halevi commented that such a plan would be “a good idea.”
Environmental experts have previously warned that such a strategy would have lasting impacts on groundwater throughout the Gaza Strip.
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