08-07-2025
Moment Hamas boss is killed in Israeli strike on car in Lebanon is revealed - as shocking extent of October 7 sex attacks is laid bare
This is the moment a top Hamas commander was killed in Lebanon in a lethal I sraeli airstrike on Tuesday.
Footage captured the moment Mehran Mustafa Ba'jur was hunted by the Israeli Defence Forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli after his vehicle was targeted as he drove down a road in an intelligence-led strike.
The six-second aerial video, which was shared by the IDF on Tuesday evening, shows the black car being blown up, with heavy smoke billowing out.
According to the IDF, Bajur 'advanced and directed numerous terrorist attacks against Israelis and the IDF, spent years establishing Hamas' military capabilities in Lebanon, was responsible for Hamas' force-buildup efforts, and purchased weapons through his connections with other terrorist organizations in the area.'
The IDF also claimed that Bajur was responsible for rocket fire attacks toward the towns of Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona, and additional cities across Israel.
'His elimination significantly degrades Hamas' terror activity in Lebanon', the Israeli military added.
Lebanon said three people were killed in a strike near Tripoli that the IDF said had targeted the Hamas militant, the first on the north since a November ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Lebanon's health ministry also said that the strike on the vehicle wounded 13 people in an area that is close to a Palestinian refugee camp.
Hamas claimed attacks on Israel from Lebanon during more than a year of cross-border hostilities launched by Hezbollah in October 2023 in support of its Palestinian ally.
Israel has struck Hamas operatives in Lebanon, including since the ceasefire.
The strike came as a new Israeli report published on Tuesday concluded that sexual violence was widespread and systematic during the Hamas-led incursion into Israel on October 7, 2023.
The Dinah Project, aiming to 'achieve recognition and justice' for the victims and survivors, published a major report compiling testimonies and evidence on alleged sexual violence on October 7 and against those in Hamas captivity.
The report, part-funded by the British government and Israeli groups working in Israel and the US, identified 'clear patterns' in how alleged sexual violence was reported during the assault and according to hostages returning from Gaza.
It assessed that 'Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapons, as part of a genocidal scheme and with the goal of terrorising and dehumanising Israeli society, a finding with significant implications for international justice mechanisms.'
Hamas has denied that it forces committed sexual violence against women or mistreated female hostages.
The report references three separate reports of mutilation, including two survivors from the IDF military base at Nahal Oz, who 'described [the] cutting off [of] victims' breasts'.
They also cite a senior ZAKA employee (voluntary post-disaster response team), who told Dinah Project Members last year that a female body had been found in Kibbutz Be'eri with a metal object inserted in her vagina.
A male body was also said to have been found in one of the kibbutzim, tied and naked with a metal object inserted in his groin, according to a ZAKA volunteer.
A third case of a body of a male with an object inserted into his anus was described in the report.
The report cited a file released by Israel's military which purported to show 'an astounding call between a Hamas terrorist (an UNRWA worker) and his officer', in which the former described a 'sabaya' (captive or sex slave), referring to her as a 'pedigree mare'.
The strike on Tuesday also came as Israel and Hamas held ceasefire talks in Qatar and after five Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza strip, one of the deadliest days for Israeli forces in the Palestinian territory this year.
Israel has kept up its strikes on Lebanon despite the November truce, mainly hitting what it says are Hezbollah targets but also occasionally targeting Hamas.
It comes after a Hamas official admitted this week that the Palestinian terrorist group had lost control of about 80 per cent of its control over Gaza and that about 95 per cent of its leadership had been killed in Israeli strikes.
The lieutenant colonel told the BBC on condition of anonymity that 'there's barley anything left of [Hamas'] security structure.'
This aerial picture shows abandoned and torched vehicles at the site of the October 7 attack on the Supernova desert music Festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel on October 13, 2023
Israeli army soldiers search the remains of a torched vehicle for forensic evidence at the site of the October 7 attack on the Supernova desert music Festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbutz Reim
'The active figures have all been really, what's stopping Israel from continuing the war'.
He added that there is now a security vacuum and that there is 'no control anywhere,' noting there are now criminal gangs 'everywhere'.
His remarks came after Israel's then-defence minister Yoav Gallant declared that 'Hamas as a military formation no longer exists' and that it was engaged in guerrilla tactics.
According to the Hamas official, the militants tried to regroup during the 57-day ceasefire with Israel earlier this year, but after the truce disintegrated in March, Israel has targeted the group's remaining structures.
Back in May, the chief of Hamas in Gaza, Mohammad Sinwar, was eliminated by Israeli forces.
Mohammad was one of Israel's most wanted and the younger brother of the militant group's former leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in October 2024.
Yahya, known as the architect of the October 7 massacre, was killed after being hunted by intelligence services and the IDF for over a year.
According to reports, Mohammad was killed on May 13 after the IDF dropped a large number of bombs on a tunnel hideout under a hospital in Gaza.
The strike also came after five Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza strip. Pictured: Ida the mother of Sgt. First Class Benyamin Asulin, who was killed in northern Gaza, mourns during his funeral on July 8, 2025 in Haifa, Israel. Asulin was one of five Israeli soldiers killed in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, last night when they were hit by a roadside bomb while patrolling on foot
Multiple airstrikes pounded the European hospital in southern Gaza where the IDF claimed it had found 'Hamas terrorists in a command and control centre' underground.
Footage showed huge clouds of smoke billowing out of the facility in Khan Younis on the Gaza strip.
The Israel-Hamas war began after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage.
Israel responded with an offensive that has killed over 57,600 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
