In addition, during the war, he assisted in holding many hostages, including Nimrod Cohen, in the southern Gaza Strip. In an attack in the northern Gaza Strip over the weekend (Friday), the IDF eliminated two additional terrorists from the military wing of Hamas: Omar Awadallah, commander of a Nukhba department, and Mutaz Mahmoud Muhammad Alnamar, a Nukhba terrorist. Throughout the war, and particularly recently, the terrorists have advanced terror plans against IDF forces and Israeli civilians and have worked to restore the capabilities of the Hamas terror organization, while systematically violating the ceasefire. The terrorists were eliminated from the air in order to remove the threat they posed. IDF forces in the Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue to operate to remove any threat.