The IDF and Shin Bet announced that Basel Himouni, a Hamas terrorist responsible for the 2004 Be’er Sheva bus bombings, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last week.

•? ?Himouni is known for sending the two suicide bombers who murdered 16 Israeli civilians and injured over 100.

•? ?He was arrested in 2004 but was later released to Gaza as part of the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal.