IDF says its Gaza strikes today killed Hamas commander, hit arms production site near aid facility

The Israeli Air Force bombed a Hamas weapons production site in the central Gaza Strip and killed a commander in the terror group in separate strikes today, the military announces.

A strike in the Maghazi camp killed Ismail Abu Ful, who the military says was the commander of an arms production site.

The IDF says “the terrorist took an active part in manufacturing explosive devices and anti-tank rockets” for Hamas, and he was “eliminated to remove the threat.”

In a separate strike in the nearby town of az-Zawayda, the IAF struck a weapons manufacturing site “near an aid distribution point operated by an international organization,” according to the IDF.

Shrapnel from that strike, which came after a warning by the IDF for residents of the area, reportedly killed two people, including a four-year-old boy, and injured several others.

“This is another example of Hamas’s systematic use of and embedding within civilian infrastructure, including aid distribution centers, to advance and execute terror attacks against IDF troops operating in the Yellow Line area and against Israeli civilians,” the military says.

The IDF says the arms production site shows that Hamas “systematically violates the ceasefire agreement while attempting to rehabilitate its military capabilities and strengthen its force buildup.”