Batis (commander)

Batis (also Baitis, Betis and also Babemesis; died 332 BC) was the governor of the city of Gaza in the Achaemenid Empire, and commander of its military forces, and an opponent of Alexander the Great during his eastern campaigns.

He was brutally executed following his capture by Alexander's Macedonian forces following their lengthy siege on Gaza throughout which Batis held and defended the city that connected the only road between the then satrapy of Egypt and the rest of the empire, thus blocking Alexander from entering that province.