The Israeli military said it killed two Hamas commanders in airstrikes at separate locations in the Gaza Strip. According to an Al Jazeera report published on August 2, 2026, Salam Jamal Abd al-Rahman Abu Labad was killed in an airstrike carried out in southern Gaza on Saturday.

Israeli forces said Abu Labad was responsible for a cell in Hamas’s Nukhba special forces. The military alleged that he directly took part in an attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel in October 2023.

In an earlier, separate airstrike in central Gaza on Friday, Israeli forces said they killed Muhammad Abd al-Nasser Muhammad Khatib, described as the commander of Hamas’s Maghazi Battalion. The report did not include a Hamas response to the Israeli military’s claims or additional information about the strikes.