IDF claims to reveal identity of Hamas’s military spokesman Abu Ubeida VIDEO

The IDF announces that Abu Ubeida, the spokesman for Hamas’s military wing, is a man named Hudhaifa Kahlout. The army also releases a short video revealing his face.

“This is Hudhaifa Kahlout, who hides behind the nom de guerre Abu Ubaida, and behind his red keffiyeh, just as Hamas hides behind civilian buildings to launch rockets towards Israel,” writes Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, The Times of Israel reports.

“He and other Hamas-ISIS leaders like to hide inside tunnels and behind women and children, as well as behind masks and shadows. Hudhaifa Kahlout, you have been exposed. It is time to drop the cover,” the post adds.

The IDF has already claimed to reveal Abu Ubeida’s identity once before — in 2014 — so the decision to do so again might be an implicit threat against him.

#عاجل هذا هو المدعو حذيفة كحلوت الذي يتستر وراء كنية أبو عبيدة وهو يتستر كذلك وراء كوفيته الحمراء. تمامًا مثلما تتستر حماس وراء المنشآت المدنية لإطلاق القذائف الصاروخية باتجاه إسرائيل. هو وغيره من قادة #دواعش_حماس يحبون التستر داخل الأنفاق ووراء النساء والأطفال، وكذلك وراء… pic.twitter.com/FmtuByc7Bv

— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) October 25, 2023