An Israeli airstrike critically wounded a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, in an attack the Israeli military said targeted a Hamas commander planning attacks against Israeli troops operating in the territory.
Details of the Attack
Palestinian medics and witnesses said the man who was wounded was riding on a rickshaw in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said in a statement that the man targeted was hit in an aerial strike in order to remove the threat to Israeli military troops.
It added that its forces would remain deployed in the area under the Southern Command in accordance with the agreement and would continue operations against immediate threats. Israeli fire has killed more than 1,250 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, since a U.S.-backed ceasefire halted two years of full-scale war in October.
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