IDF Kills Hamas Gaza City Brigade Deputy Commander Aslim and Northern Gaza Brigade Leader Bik in Same Strike

Israeli forces struck a civilian residence in Gaza City on May 28, 2026, killing Imad Aslim — deputy commander of the Hamas Gaza City Brigade and commander of its Zeitoun Battalion — alongside Izz al-Din Bik, the commander of Hamas's Northern Gaza Brigade, in a single operation. The IDF reported both men were meeting at the location when the strike hit. In the same operational period, the IDF also separately confirmed the killing of Ihad Khreizim, a Hamas financier responsible for 'millions of dollars' in Qassam Brigades funding, and Muhammad al-Habash, who commanded a Hamas weapons production headquarters. The confirmation of Aslim and Bik's deaths — reported by the Times of Israel liveblog on May 29 — represented the elimination of two mid-to-senior Hamas brigade commanders in a single strike, continuing the rapid attrition of Hamas's command and control infrastructure following the elimination of two successive Qassam Brigades chiefs (al-Haddad on May 15 and Odeh on May 26). The Foundation for Defense of Democracies catalogued these killings as part of a broader campaign in which the IDF reported 10 ceasefire violations between May 21-28.