A TOP Hamas commander who was behind a massacre that left more than 100 people dead in one Israeli village has been killed.

Abed Alrahman, the deputy commander of the Nuseirat Battalion, was wiped out on Tuesday, the Israeli Defence Force claimed.

It comes after one of the leaders of the terror group’s security forces, Jehad Mheisen, was killed at his home in Gaza.

The top commander was killed with his family in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Radwan, a Hamas-aligned news agency said. 

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His death came just days after another Hamas commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Ayman Nofal, who was in charge of the Central Gaza area in the armed wing Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades, was the most high-profile Hamas militant to be assassinated so far.

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