{"id":92777,"date":"2026-06-03T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=92777"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:07:03","slug":"hamas-terrorist-who-kidnapped-four-on-oct-7-eliminated-in-gaza-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/hamas-terrorist-who-kidnapped-four-on-oct-7-eliminated-in-gaza-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas terrorist who kidnapped four on Oct. 7 eliminated in Gaza strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS STAFF<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-dateAndSource\">(<em>JNS.org<\/em>) \u2013&nbsp;The Israel Defense Forces has eliminated a Hamas terrorist responsible for abducting four Israeli civilians during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the military said on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_92778\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92778\" class=\"wp-image-92778 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated.webp 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92778\" class=\"wp-image-92778 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/terrorist-eliminated.webp 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-92778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yousef Ayesh Awad Ramadan, a deputy commander of a Hamas Nukhba terrorist cell, at a bomb shelter at the Re\u2019im Junction in Israel\u2019s south, Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Israel Defense Forces\u2019 Spokesperson\u2019s Unit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yousef Ayesh Awad Ramadan, a deputy commander of a Hamas Nukhba terrorist cell, helped kidnap Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eliya Cohen, Alon Ohel and Or Levy from a bomb shelter at the Re\u2019im Junction in Israel\u2019s south, according to the IDF.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, throughout the War of Redemption sparked by the Oct. 7 massacre, Ramadan \u201cadvanced attack plans against IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians,\u201d the IDF said. \u201cAs such, he posed an immediate threat to IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The terrorist was eliminated in an airstrike in central Gaza, the army stated, adding that it took steps to prevent harm to noncombatants, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers remain deployed in the enclave in accordance with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement \u201cand will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The current truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, 2025, ending the two-year war that began when Hamas, other Palestinian terrorist groups and Gazan \u201ccivilians\u201d invaded the northwestern Negev on Oct. 7, 2023. They murdered some 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 more into the enclave.<\/p>\n<p>Ohel, who was held hostage for 738 days and was released as part of the U.S.-brokered Gaza deal on Oct. 13, 2025, thanked the IDF for eliminating his kidnapper in an Instagram story on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just heard that the terrorist who was part of the cell that kidnapped me has been taken out. I want to say thank you to the IDF, which is doing an incredible job in Gaza and Lebanon,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cUntil the last terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Hamas%20terrorist%20who%20kidnapped%20four%20on%20Oct.%207%20eliminated%20in%20Gaza%20strike\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14817,15203,40,13367,8790,8795,8788,15204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92779,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92777\/revisions\/92779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}