IDF says Gaza strikes targeted 4 Hamas, PIJ commanders and arms sites over ceasefire violations

The IDF confirms carrying out a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, saying it targeted Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders and infrastructure in response to a “violation of the ceasefire.”

According to the military, the strikes were launched after eight gunmen emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Friday. The IDF said that three of the gunmen were killed in strikes and a fourth, described as a key Hamas commander, was captured.

The IDF says the incident in Rafah was a violation of the ceasefire.

So far, the IDF says its strikes since last night have targeted four commanders in the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups, a weapons depot, an arms manufacturing site, and two rocket launching positions.

Hamas’s civil defense agency says it has retrieved the bodies of 28 people killed by the strikes in seven different locations in the Gaza Strip since this morning.

“The terror organizations in the Strip systematically violate international law, while brutally exploiting civilian institutions and operating in the presence of the local population,” the IDF says.

“The IDF and the Shin Bet view any violation of the agreement gravely and will continue to act against any attempt by terror organizations in the Gaza Strip to carry out terror attacks against IDF troops and civilians of the State of Israel,” the military adds.