Friday, Israeli and Shin Bet defense forces said that a terrorist agent who supervised the kidnapping and was probably also involved in the murder of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir, were killed in an air strike in Gaza.
The military and security agency has also announced the murders of a propagandist of Hamas involved in the production of hostage videos and a central official of the money pipe to the army wing of the terrorist group.
Friday, FDI and Shin Bet said that Muhammad Hassan Muhammad Awad, a senior member of the Mujahideen brigades, a relatively small terrorist group of the strip, had been targeted and killed in an air strike in the north of Gaza earlier during the day.
In a joint statement, the FDI and Shin Bet said that Wad has invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023 led by Hamas and led the abduction of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas.
The FDI said that Wadad was “probably involved in their murder” during the first weeks of the war.
According to the evaluations of Israeli officials issued after his body was identified, Shiri Bibas was “brutally” murdered by his captors in November 2023, alongside his sons, who were killed with bare hands. The evaluations after a medico-legal survey were contrary to the affirmations of Hamas that the three were killed during an Israeli air strike.
Muhammad Hassan Muhammad Awad, a Brigades terrorist from Mujahideen Senior who, according to Israel, supervised the kidnapping of Shiri Bibas and his two young sons, and was probably involved in their murders, seen in a poster published by the terrorist group after his murder by Israel on April 4, 2025. (Telegram).
Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, when thousands of terrorists storm southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, causing war in Gaza. The husband and father Yarden Bibas were taken in captivity separately from his wife and children.
The bodies of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were returned in February as part of the cease-fire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas. Yarden Bibas was released alive.
The FDI and Shin Bet said that OWAD was also responsible for the kidnapping of American-Israeli nationals Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein, who were both killed in the middle of the assault at Nir Oz, as well as several Thai nationals taken hostage from Kibbutz, soldiers said.
A photo not dated from Judih Weinstein and Gadi Haggai (courtesy)
The terrorist group also confirmed the death of Awad, saying that he was a superior military commander and the head of his intelligence division. The FDI said it was considered close to the Mujahidine Brigades Directorate.
“In addition, as part of its role in the terrorist group, Awad was engaged in the recruitment of terrorist agents in (West Bank) and Israel (proper), through which they have advanced and carried out attacks against the Israelis,” said the army.
During the war, the FDIs said that the Mujahideen Brigades, allied with Hamas, led several attacks on Israeli forces in Gaza and Israel.
The propagandist and financial of Hamas both killed this week
The IDF and Shin Bet also said on Friday that they had killed a Hamas agent who “was a propaganda and psychological terrorism agent” in an air strike in Gaza this week.
According to the army, Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil “played a central role in the propaganda apparatus of Hamas, systematically disseminating false information and taking advantage of the media as a tool of psychological terror and to promote the murderous story of the Hamas terrorist organization.”
Bardawil also worked as a broadcaster with Al-Aqsa radio managed by Hamas.
The FDI said that “although it was called a well -known journalist in Gaza, it was an integral part of the Hamas incentive and terrorism infrastructure.”
This undated photo published by the IDF on April 4, 2025 shows the operation of Hamas Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil. (Via Israeli defense forces; used in accordance with clause 27a of copyright law)
“Bardawil took an active part in the production of propaganda cynical videos distributed by the terrorist organization Hamas, in which the kidnapped Israelis were filmed during their captivity in Gaza,” added the army.
According to the Palestinian media, Bardawil was killed on Monday in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, alongside his wife and three children.
An agent of Hamas involved in the channeling of money to the military wing of the terrorist group was also killed during an air strike on Thursday, the FDI and Shin Bet announced.
Saeed Ahmad Abed Khudari was the head of the Al Wefaq Co. exchange company, who had been appointed as a terrorist organization by the Ministry of Defense for his involvement in the transfer of money to Hamas.
“Khudari has participated in numerous financial transfers to the Hamas military wing over the years and especially throughout the war,” said the FDI.
The army said that its involvement in the funnel of the funds towards Hamas had increased following the murder of his brother, Hamed Khudari, in 2019. His brother had also been a man of money for Hamas, according to the army.
The elimination of Khudari yesterday is “an important blow for the ability of the terrorist organization to rearm and restore itself,” added the FDI.
The Palestinians inspect damage to the Dar al-Arqam school building in the Al-Tuffah district after being bombed by Israeli planes in Gaza City, April 4, 2025. (Ali Hassan / Flash90)
MSF says the worker, the family were killed in air strike
Meanwhile, the medical charity of doctors Without borders (MSF) said on Friday that an air strike on April 1 had killed one of his workers, as well as his 28 -year -old wife and daughter.
MSF said that he was “dismayed and saddened by the murder of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an air strike on the morning of April 1”.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
“Our colleague Hussam was killed with hundreds of others through the Gaza Strip since the resumption of Israeli forces on March 18,” said MSF.
The 58-year-old goalkeeper of the MSF urgent care unit in Khan Younis was killed with his 28-year-old wife and daughter in “the horrible attack” in the southwest of Deir Al Balah in the center of Gaza, said MSF.
He was the eleventh MSF worker killed in Gaza since the start of the war, 18 months ago and the second since the collapse last month of a short truce.
MSF praised Loulou for his “altruism, his humility and his true care for those around him”, adding that he had survived by two sons.
TSAhal troops of the 401st armored brigade operate in the Northern Gaza Strip on a document photo issued on April 4, 2025 (Israeli Defense Forces)
“We strongly condemn his murder and the call again for the immediate restoration of the ceasefire and the protection of civilians,” said the organization. “This bloodshed must end.”
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of terrorists led by Hamas invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages in the midst of acts of brutality and sexual assault.
The Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas says that more than 50,000 people in the strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, although the toll cannot be checked and does not make the difference between civilians and combatants. Israel says he killed some 20,000 combat fighters in January and 1,600 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
Israel said he was looking to minimize civilian deaths and stresses that Hamas uses civilians from Gaza as human shields, fighting civil zones, including houses, hospitals, schools and mosques.
Terrorist groups of the Gaza Strip still hold 59 hostages, 24 of which are considered alive, while 35 were confirmed dead by the FDI.
The Israeli toll in the offensive on the ground against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the strip is 410.
