The IDF and the Shin Bet announced on Wednesday night that they had assassinated Hamas’s top rocket commander in central Gaza.
According to the IDF, Amar Atia Deruyash al-Adini has been a critical part of Hamas’s rocket firing apparatus since the 2008-9 Gaza conflict.
A statement said that he was intimately involved with directing rocket fire both on the Tel Aviv area and on Israel’s South.
Al-Adini was involved in the October 7 attack
Further, the statement said that al-Adini had been involved in planning and managing aspects of the October 7 attack leading to Hamas’s massacre of Israelis in southern Israel.
Rocket fire from Gaza has faded almost entirely since early January, but al-Adini and others have managed to keep rocket attacks continuing at lower volumes throughout the war.