Israel sets up centre to eliminate Hamas commandos

Israeli intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet have established a special operations centre to track and eliminate Hamas operatives involved in the October 7 attack on Israel.

The new structure is named "Nili" after a Jewish underground organisation that operated in Palestine during the First World War, The Times of Israel reports.

Nili's task is to eliminate members of Hamas's elite Nukhba unit who participated in the attack on Israel, during which some 1,400 people, most of them civilians, were killed.

The head of Hamas' military wing, Muhammad Deif, and the radical group's political leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, top the list of those to be eliminated.