ISRAELI troops have wiped out one of Hamas' top commando units, the IDF has claimed.
The terrorist group's elite Nukhba forces were the ones "ordered to kill everyone and burn their homes" in the October 7 massacre.
A video released by the IDF shows a man's anonymous account of how gunmen were instructed to kill everyone they saw, including beheading victims and cutting off their legs, The Times of Israel reported.
“The plan was to go from home to home, from room to room, to throw grenades and kill everyone, including women and children,” he said.
“Hamas ordered us to crush their heads and cut them off, [and] to cut their legs.”
Nukhba, which means "elite", is the special forces unit within the Hamas military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the Gaza Strip.
Its terror fighters are selected by senior Hamas operatives and tasked with carrying out ambushes, raids, and moving through tunnels to infiltrate areas in Israel.
Little is known about the group beyond its status as having a high level of training and reports from 2017 which said a number of its men abandoned its ranks to join the Islamic State.
Experts familiar with Palestinian terror groups said Nukhba had similar levels of training to Hezbollah’s Radwan forces, which specialise in covert attacks on northern Israel at the border.
Danny Citrinowicz, a senior Middle East analyst at the Atlantic Council told The Telegraph: “They’re commandos, same as the Radwan forces in Lebanon. They’re the same type of elite group and they got the assignment to break first and clear the way for the forces."
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