Sherki emphasized that he thinks the deal to bring the hostages back is the right thing.
“The sacrifices of our people in the genocidal war will not go in vain," the statement read.
Zubeidi was born in 1976 to a family of nine in Jenin, a Palestinian city in the West Bank.
The militant, Ahmed al-Mansour, has posted several videos saying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would meet the same fate as Assad.
Capt. Eitan Shiknazi and Maj. Dvir Zion Revah were killed by an anti-tank missile, and Sgt. Ido Samiach was killed in close-quarter combat.
According to the Washington Post, Aliji immersed himself in violent videos and IS chatrooms as a way of managing his depression.
According to the IDF, locating and killing Hamas forces was made possible by ongoing intelligence collection, operations to trick the forces into an ambush, and both tank fire and soldiers' gunfire.
This comes after an additional round of arrests in the West Bank on Monday.
Program adds internal Mossad strategy regarding deploying the beepers.
Last year, a court found six adolescents guilty of participating in a premeditated conspiracy and helping prepare an ambush.