IDF confirms strikes on Gaza terror targets after ‘blatant ceasefire violation’

The IDF confirms carrying out several airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight and this morning, in response to a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire yesterday.

The military says among those killed in the strikes was a Hamas terrorist who infiltrated the Re’im military base during the October 7, 2023, onslaught.

The military says strikes targeting terror operatives in northern Gaza, Gaza City, and Khan Younis came after five Palestinian gunmen emerged from a tunnel and approached troops on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line last night.

The targeted terror operatives “had recently been working to restore the capabilities of the terror organizations in the Strip and were advancing attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel,” the IDF says.

One of the strikes killed Ahmad Bayouk, who the IDF says raided the Re’im military base on October 7.

Meanwhile, the IDF also announces that a strike last Monday, in response to an attack by gunmen on troops in southern Gaza’s Rafah a day prior, killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander.

Azem Abu Huli, who headed Islamic Jihad’s elite forces in the Strip’s center, was responsible for supplying weapons to other terror operatives, as well as advancing attacks against troops, the army says.

Abu Huli commanded Islamic Jihad terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, and throughout the war also trained operatives “to practice scenarios involving the abduction of IDF soldiers,” the IDF adds.