A Hamas terrorist who murdered IDF surveillance soldier Cpl. Noa Marciano in captivity in the beginning of the battle in Gaza was killed in an airstrike earlier Wednesday, the army introduced.
Muhammad Issam Hassan al-Habil, a Hamas cell commander, was focused in Gaza Metropolis’s Shati Camp in response to an in a single day assault on troops in northern Gaza, throughout which a reservist officer was critically wounded by Palestinian gunmen, the IDF mentioned.
In accordance with the Shin Guess safety company, throughout interrogations of captured suspects, it emerged that al-Habil “brutally murdered” Marciano in captivity.
The IDF added that Wednesday’s strike was enabled by intelligence collected by the Gaza Division, the place Marciano had served as a surveillance soldier as a part of the 414th Fight Intelligence Assortment Unit.
Marciano, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, from the Nahal Oz base, was later killed at Shifa Hospital, based on the army. Her physique was recovered by the IDF in November 2023.
Several Hamas terrorists concerned in guarding Marciano had been killed in strikes in the course of the battle.
Hamas terrorist Muhammad Issam Hassan al-Habil, whom the army says murdered hostage soldier Cpl. Noa Marciano in captivity, is focused in an airstrike in Gaza Metropolis on February 4, 2026,. (Israel Protection Forces)
After the IDF introduced that al-Habil was killed, Adi Marciano, Noa’s mom, mentioned: “We had been promised that everybody concerned in Noa’s homicide in Gaza can be eradicated, and this promise was saved at this time.”
“There is no such thing as a actual consolation on this,” she conceded, however added that “there may be data that justice was executed, even when solely partially, for Noa. Nothing will carry her again to us.”
“She was a beloved little one, full of sunshine, sensitivity, and pleasure of life, and her absence accompanies us day-after-day and with each breath,” her mom continued. “The ache of her loss won’t ever finish.”
Marciano, 19, lived in Modiin and was the oldest of three siblings.
A month after her kidnapping, Hamas revealed a propaganda video of Marciano, exhibiting her chatting with the digital camera 4 days after being taken hostage, figuring out herself and reciting the names of her mother and father and her hometown. The video then lower to exhibiting her lifeless physique.
Then-IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari mentioned that Marciano was wounded by an IDF airstrike on November 9, 2023, whereas held in Gaza, and later taken to Shifa, the place she was murdered.
Hagari mentioned that the pathology report “states Noa was injured by the strike, however not in a life-threatening method,” opposite to the false Hamas declare that she was killed in a strike. “In accordance with intelligence info, Noa was taken contained in the partitions of Shifa Hospital, the place she was murdered by a Hamas terrorist.”
On November 14, the military declared her lifeless, and on November 16, they introduced that they’d recovered her physique and introduced it again to Israel. She was laid to relaxation in Modiin on November 17.
