A senior Hamas intelligence operative who helped plan the terror group’s October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel was killed in a Tuesday airstrike, the IDF and Shin Bet announced Wednesday in a joint statement.

The Tuesday strike killed Iyad Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Shambari, who served as chief of operations in Hamas’s intelligence division, according to the military and Shin Bet.

Shambari was a “central figure involved in gathering intelligence on IDF troops” for attacks, and he “posed an immediate threat to IDF troops operating in the area,” the statement said.

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said four people were killed and six injured when two projectiles hit the car in Gaza City’s western Al-Rimal neighborhood.

A Gaza security source identified one of the victims as Shambari’s son Salah, whose age was unclear.

Also on Tuesday, medics said 9-year-old Adel Al‑Najjar was killed in an IDF strike east of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave.

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