A TOP Hamas commander, responsible for sending militants to carry out the deadly October 7 massacre has been killed, the IDF has claimed.

Ebrahim Biari, the commander of the Jabalia center battalion was struck by IDF warplanes during an Israeli airstrike on the terrorist stronghold earlier today.

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IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said: “During this operation, many terrorists were killed.

“Terrorists who were with him inside the building as well as under the building in tunnels.

“The targeting of the building [Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari] was in led to destruction in other buildings because of this extensive underground infrastructure.

“The purpose of that infrastructure was to carry out attacks against Israel and that infrastructure has collapsed.”

The IDF also said Biari was one of the Hamas leaders responsible for sending militants to carry out the deadly 7 October attacks in Israel.

The deadly massacre at the Supernova music festival in southern Gaza saw over 260 people killed, as footage emerged of party-goers hiding in orchards as gunshots rang out.

Biari was also accused of carrying out the 2004 attack on Ashdod Port, as well as directing rocket fire at Israel and advancing numerous attacks on the IDF over the last two decades.

Hamas had claimed the Israeli airstrike took the lives of more than 50 people in in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

But Israel’s IDF hit back, claiming the explosion was a “wide-scale strike on terrorists and terror infrastructure”.

Photos of today’s blast showed neighbourhoods reduced to rubble and giant sinkholes splitting the streets in the aftermath of the massive blast.

An IDF statement read: “IDF forces under the command of the Givati Brigade took over a Hamas military stronghold in West Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, in-ground operations today.”

They added that “about 50 terrorists were eliminated”, but the official death toll has not yet been confirmed.

IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari added: “During this operation, many terrorists were killed.

“Terrorists who were with him inside the building as well as under the building in tunnels.

“The targeting of the building he was in led to destruction in other buildings because of this extensive underground infrastructure.

“The purpose of that infrastructure was to carry out attacks against Israel and that infrastructure has collapsed.”

Pictures showed two huge craters, with damaged buildings on either side.

Onlookers gathered with some seen climbing into the holes as they desperately searched for any survivors. 

Civilians covered in dust left over from the remains of fallen buildings were pictured digging through bricks while pulling bodies from the rubble.

One eye-witness told CNN: “I was waiting in line to buy bread when suddenly and without any prior warning seven to eight missiles fell.

“There were seven to eight huge holes in the ground, full of killed people, body parts all over the place,” he said.

“It felt like the end of the world.”

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