Report: Israel Formed Secret Unit to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker
"Israel established a secret elite intelligence task force in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre to track down and kill or capture every terrorist involved in the attack — from senior commanders who orchestrated the assault to individual gunmen who crossed into southern Israel during the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
"According to a detailed Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday, the unit — known as NILI, a Hebrew acronym derived from a biblical verse meaning “The Eternal One of Israel Does Not Lie” — was formed by Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service and military intelligence shortly after the Hamas-led attack that killed roughly 1,200 people and saw 251 Israelis taken hostage, most of them civilians.
"Earlier reports following the massacre indicated the operation also involved Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency, signaling from the outset that the campaign would likely extend beyond Gaza to Hamas operatives and leadership figures based abroad.
"The report said the task force compiled a database containing thousands of names, including Hamas Nukhba commandos — the terror group’s elite assault force that spearheaded much of the October 7 infiltration — as well as additional Palestinians identified as participating in the massacre. Israeli officials told the newspaper that targets are reportedly approved only after investigators obtain at least two independent pieces of evidence placing them at the scene of the attack or directly tying them to the assault.
"According to the report, Israeli intelligence personnel relied on a sweeping range of surveillance and intelligence tools to identify suspects, including facial recognition software run against videos uploaded by Hamas terrorists themselves, intercepted communications, cellphone location data, social media footage, and interrogations of Gazan detainees captured during the war." . . . More...
One year ago, Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was eliminated by the @IDF.
— Embassy of Israel to the USA (@IsraelinUSA) May 14, 2026
He was hiding in a tunnel directly beneath the emergency room of a hospital in Khan Yunis.
He didn't die on a battlefield. He died in a hole under a hospital, using the sick and wounded as his final shield.… pic.twitter.com/cbFVfBs5NE
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