TIMES OF ISRAEL
IDF, Shin Bet acknowledge for first time special mission to hunt down and kill all Oct. 7 terrorists
Jeremy Sharon
August 9, 2026

…As recently reported by The Times of Israel, the IDF and Shin Bet have devoted significant time and resources to eliminating the terrorists who took part in the October 7 atrocities, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage. Officers of the special joint IDF-Shin Bet unit dubbed “Nili” have worked over the last three years to compile an extensive list running to thousands of names of those involved in the atrocities, and painstakingly worked to identify, find and eliminate them…According to the Channel 12 report, 2,800 people on Nili’s list have been killed, including the 1,200 terrorists killed by Israeli security forces in southern Israel during the onslaught, the worst-ever invasion of Israel and the bloodiest single attack in the history of the nation. READ MORE