IDF confirms strike on terror operatives in Gaza who crossed ceasefire line

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Following reports in the morning of an airstrike in Gaza, the IDF says it carried out a strike in the southern Gaza Strip earlier today against a group of Palestinian terror operatives who crossed the Yellow Line demarcating the military’s pullback in the Gaza Strip.

According to the military, the operatives were digging in the ground and approaching Israeli forces in the Khan Younis area, which is under IDF control as part of the ceasefire.

The operatives “posed an immediate threat” to the troops, and upon being identified, they were targeted in a strike, the IDF says.

Palestinian media reports that two people were killed in the strike.

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