Israeli military targets Hamas commander it says planned attacks against troops operating in territory
The Israeli military says it has launched an attack on a Hamas commander it says was planning attacks against Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli air strike has critically wounded a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, in an attack the Israeli military says targeted a Hamas commander planning attacks against Israeli troops operating in the territory.
It was the first such air strike in over a week, after Israel scaled back major attacks under US pressure to implement the latest iteration of President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in the enclave.
Palestinian medics and witnesses said the man who was wounded was riding on a rickshaw in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.
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It added that its forces would remain deployed in the area under the Southern Command in accordance with the agreement and would continue operations against immediate threats.
Israeli fire has killed more than 1250 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, since a US-backed ceasefire halted two years of full-scale war in October.
It is unclear how many of those killed might be militants since Hamas does not usually disclose information about dead fighters.
Four Israeli soldiers were killed by militants in the strip over the same period, according to an Israeli tally.
