Hamas terrorist who held Brit hostage Emily Damari captive in his home assassinated by Israel in targeted airstrike
Muhammad Nasr Ali Quneita was killed in Gaza City, the Israeli military said.
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The IDF said alongside footage: "Quneita was a terrorist in Hamas's Al-Furqan Battalions' military intelligence, who infiltrated Israel during the brutal Oct 7 massacre and held Emily Damari hostage in his home at the start of the war."
Emily Damari grew up in southeast London before moving to Israel in her 20s.
The Spurs fan was shot in the hand and suffered shrapnel wounds to the leg when she was snatched from the Kfar Aza kibbutz village on October 7.
She was forced to use a bucket as a toilet and starved as captives were given half a pita bread a day to eat.
Hamas hostages released in November 2023, revealed captives were not allowed to wash or change clothes with many of them contracting lice.
They reported the level of sanitation was atrocious with big groups of hostages being forced to share a toilet with no water causing disease to spread.
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