Joint IDF and ISA announcement:

**The IDF eliminated the Commander of Hamas’ Naval Police in the Central Camps and two additional Hamas commanders
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On Friday, the IDF struck in the central Gaza Strip and eliminated the terrorist Mansour Sami Mahmoud Shahtout, the Commander of Hamas’ Naval Police in the Central Camps. 

Shahtout operated in recent times to advance terror attacks against IDF troops.
With him, during the strike, two additional commanders belonging to Hamas’ Naval Police were eliminated. Hamas’ Naval Police operates under Hamas' military wing and advances and directs terror attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.

Shahtout and the two additional terrorists were traveling in a vehicle while armed with weapons, and as such posed a threat to IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip. The terrorists were eliminated in order to remove the threat.