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Palestinian weapons smuggler for Hamas killed in strike in Gaza, IDF says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A Palestinian weapons smuggler was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, the IDF announces.
The military says it killed Mustafa Owaisi, who had “attempted to smuggle military equipment into the Gaza Strip.”
“During the war, Owaisi acted to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip, and in recent months continued attempting to smuggle additional military equipment to rebuild Hamas’s military wing, in violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the IDF says.
The military adds that the equipment was intended to be used by Hamas in the “naval and aerial arenas.”
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