IDF says it killed 5 Gaza terror operatives in recent strikes

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

The IDF says it struck and killed five terror operatives in the Gaza Strip in recent days, “to remove an immediate threat” to troops.

The operatives had planned attacks on forces stationed in Gaza “in the immediate timeframe,” the military says.

They are identified by the IDF as Salem Qariqa, a member of Hamas’s Shejaiya Battalion who worked to build explosives and advanced sniper attacks on troops; Saeed Shamali, a Nukhba Force team commander; Ahmad Khallas, a sniper platoon commander in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad; and two more Hamas commanders who planted bombs targeting Israeli troops.

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