Tabash, known as “Abu Ali,” was a commander in the military intelligence service of the Qassam Brigades and played a central role in planning Operation “Dawn of Wounds” on October 7, 2023. What are the details of his career?

Tabash was the head of Hamas military intelligence and was responsible for identifying Israeli military targets before and during the October 7 operation.

Osama Tabash was responsible for carrying out a number of operations, “including the suicide bombing at the Gush Katif junction in 2005, which resulted in the death of a senior Shin Bet officer,” according to Israeli reports.

Sources in Israel confirmed that Tabash played a central role in identifying targets before bombing them and storming military sites throughout Gaza. The sources added that the intelligence agency he headed was responsible for preparing the list of targets that the elite Qassam Brigades units raided at dawn on October 7.

The sources also noted that Tabash’s unit was responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence on IDF movements in the south before the operation.

In his last role, Tabash was responsible for formulating Hamas’s field combat strategy, worked to consolidate the organization’s field intelligence picture in the southern Gaza Strip, and led Hamas operations in that area.

WHEN WAS HE ELIMINATED?

According to an Israeli report, Osama Tabash was killed in a precision airstrike carried out by an Israeli drone that targeted an intelligence site in the central Gaza Strip. An IDF spokesman confirmed that the strike followed “ongoing intelligence efforts” as part of a plan to eliminate first and second-tier Qassam Brigades commanders.

It was also reported that the operation was carried out after monitoring his movements for several days, and that his killing was considered part of a strategy to eliminate all the planners of the Nukhba forces’ raids and their soldiers on October 7, 23.