IDF kills Hamas terrorist it says worked for UNRWA, led charge on Reim bomb shelter massacre

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) connected Thursday confirmed that they person "eliminated" a Hamas commandant who not lone was involved successful the Oct. 7 attacks – including the battle connected the Reim weaponry structure wherever U.S. national Hersh Goldberg-Polin was abducted – but who they besides claimed "simultaneously" worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

Mohammad Abu Itiwi, a commandant successful Hamas’ elite Nukhba force, was killed by the Israeli Airforce connected Wednesday, during a associated cognition by the IDF and the Israeli Security Agency.

The arguable United Nations bureau did not instantly instrumentality Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

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Mohammad Abu Itiwi during the October 7th Massacre. The Hamas Nukhba commandant was progressive successful the execution and abduction of Israeli civilians connected October 7th and, according to the IDF, was simultaneously employed by UNRWA. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

According to images supplied by the IDF, Abu Itiwi had been successful the employment of the UNRWA since July 2022, and helium was besides photographed astatine the Reim weaponry structure adjacent the Tribe of Nova euphony festival, wherever attendees ran for screen arsenic Hamas terrorists attacked. 

The Reim weaponry shelter has go a awesome of the Oct. 7th massacre and was wherever Goldberg-Polin, his champion friend Aner Shapira, and 25 others attempted to fell from Hamas attackers. 

Abu Itiwi allegedly led the onslaught connected the shelter, according to the IDF, and upon uncovering dozens hidden successful the structure connected Route 232 successful confederate Israel, Hamas terrorists repeatedly pelted them with grenades. 

Accounts of what happened adjacent picture Shapira, 22 years aged and an IDF soldier, attempting to calm the already 20-or-so radical hiding successful the structure and promised to support them.

"I’ll drawback the grenades and propulsion them backmost – and if I miss any, you propulsion them back," 1 relationship of the horrific lawsuit described for the Times of Israel.

Pictures are displayed connected the walls of a weaponry structure successful which, six months earlier, radical sought refuge earlier being killed during the deadly October 7 onslaught connected Israel by Palestinian Islamist radical Hamas from Gaza, adjacent Kibbutz Beeri successful confederate Israel, April 7, 2024.  (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

Shapira managed to propulsion 7 of the grenades backmost retired earlier helium was killed. 

During the onslaught connected the shelter, Goldberg-Polin's limb was blown disconnected from the elbow down. He was capable to necktie himself a tourniquet earlier helium and others from the structure were abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, wherever helium was killed by Hamas terrorists 11 months later. 

Twenty-seven radical were successful that shelter, 16 were killed, 4 were kidnapped, and 7 survived.

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Abu Itiwi reportedly directed and carried retired galore attacks connected IDF troops operating successful the Gaza Strip.

Representatives from Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities successful the Territories – an bureau nether the Israeli Ministry of Defense – reached retired to elder officials successful the United Nations and the planetary assemblage to petition an urgent probe into the engagement of UNRWA employees successful the Oct. 7th Massacre.

Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, pictured connected screen, talk during the Democratic National Convention connected Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, successful Chicago.  (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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The U.N. bureau has antecedently been slapped with akin allegations involving ties to Hamas, though it has flatly rejected galore of the claims. 

In caller months, the U.N. has fired astatine slightest 12 staffers aft uncovering they perchance had been progressive successful the Oct. 7 attacks."