The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) have killed Musbah Salim Musbah Dayyah, head of the Mujahideen terrorist group that held the Bibas family, the IDF reported Wednesday.
Dayyah was responsible for terrorist attacks in Gaza and the West Bank, the IDF said. He was the fourth Mujahideen leader in Gaza to be eliminated over the past few months, it added.
Mujahideen terrorists took “a significant part in the brutal October 7 massacre,” including abduction and murder, the IDF said.
Dayyah was operating in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip.
Kataib al-Mujahideen (Holy Warriors Brigades), the so-called armed wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, invaded Israel during the October 7 massacre. It was responsible for the abduction and murder of Shiri Bibas and her children, Kfir and Ariel, as well as the killing of Israeli-American-Canadian couple Judith Weinstein Haggai and Gad Haggai and Thai workers.
Terror group responsible abduction, murder, of several hostages
The IDF killed Kataib al-Mujahideen commander Mahmoud Muhammad Hamid Kuhail, also known as Abu al-Mu’tasim, and Palestinian Mujahideen Movement leader As’ad Abu Sharaiya in an airstrike in early June.
According to security sources, Kataib al-Mujahideen is relatively small but highly lethal and compartmentalized, which has allowed it to operate under the radar of the IDF and evade intelligence monitoring.
The group was established during the Second Intifada by senior terrorists who split from Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and adopted a more radical Salafi ideology. After its first commander, Omar Abu Sharia, was killed by the IDF in 2006, his family members assumed the leadership.