As so many Israelis and others mourned the third anniversary of the October 7 atrocities, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was taking aim at a Hamas commander who helped murder multiple civilians in 2023 and who was gearing up for more slaughter.

IDF made the extremely welcome announcement on October 8. “ELIMINATED: Ibrahim Alam, a commander in Hamas’ military wing, who infiltrated Israel during the October 7 Massacre and took part in the murder of numerous Israeli civilians and in the abduction of Sergeant Shaked Dahan’s body to Hamas captivity,” it confirmed.

IDF added, “Additionally, Mu'tasem Muhammad Suleiman Salah, a terrorist in Hamas’ military wing, was eliminated. Recently, the terrorists advanced attacks against Israeli civilians & IDF troops and operated to restore Hamas’ capabilities, in systematic violation of the ceasefire. The terrorists were eliminated in order to remove the threat they posed.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced this week that the IDF has eliminated about two-thirds of the 6,000 terrorists who crossed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

What is incredibly important to understand is that Hamas terrorism continues up through the present, and that there have been over 2,300 Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israelis this year.

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Oct. 7, 2023, was the worst day of slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust. Nothing can ever restore the murdered victims and destroyed families. But there is a difference today from what there was during the Holocaust — the Jews now have a military and some of the best intelligence operatives in the world. Adolf Hitler did not know how prophetic he was in making an alliance with the Muslim who started what became modern Palestinian terrorism to prevent the re-establishment of Israel. Israel is not able to stop antisemitic terrorism, but it is able to fight back and punish the terrorists. That is the jihadis’ and neo-Nazis' worst nightmare.

Countless Muslim nations and groups are attempting to finish what Hitler did not: the annihilation of the Jewish people. But just as the Jews survived all the evil pagan peoples of the Old Testament, so they will outlive these vicious and vile killers also. Am Yisrael Chai — the people of Israel live.