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27-10-2025
JERUSALEM: Israeli forces carried out a “targeted strike” on an individual in central Gaza who was planning to attack Israeli troops, Israel’s military said on Saturday.
A US-backed ceasefire is in force between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas more than two years after the war in the Gaza Strip began, but each side has accused the other of violations.
Israel said it had targeted a member of Islamic Jihad. The Palestinian militant group did not immediately comment on the assertion.
Witnesses told media they had seen a drone strike a car and set it ablaze. Local medics said four people had been wounded, but there were no immediate reports of deaths.
Witnesses said separately that Israeli tanks had shelled eastern areas of Gaza City, the Gaza Strip’s biggest urban area. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Several Israeli media sites said Israel, in a reversal of a policy of barring entry to foreign forces, had allowed Egyptian officials into the Gaza Strip to help locate the bodies of hostages taken captive in the Hamas-led attack on Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, that triggered the war.
As part of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas has said it will return all the hostages it abducted, but the remains of 13 are still in the enclave.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“A short while ago, the IDF (army) conducted a precise strike in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip targeting a terrorist from the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization who planned to carry out an imminent terrorist attack against IDF troops,” the military claimed.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking to journalists as he left Israel, did not address the strike directly, but he noted that incidents are common in the immediate aftermath of ceasefires.
“Every night will bring new challenges on how to keep it together,” he said. “So we recognize that, but we also feel like we’ve made tremendous progress in the last 12 or 13 days.”
Inside the Gaza Strip, the Al-Awda hospital confirmed it had received wounded for treatment after a strike in Nuseirat.
“The hospital has received four injured people following the Israeli occupation’s targeting of a civilian car in the Al-Ahli Club area in Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza,” the hospital said.
The military said it would continue operations in Gaza “to remove any immediate threat” to its troops.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would give Hamas a chance to honor the Gaza truce deal with Israel, but warned that the group would be “eradicated” if it fails to do so.
This comes less than a week after statements Trump gave to reporters regarding the disarmament of Hamas, a point of contention in the US-brokered peace deal agreed on by both parties earlier this month.
“If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them, and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently,” Trump said.
Since the ceasefire began, Israel has killed at least 97 people and injured 230, according to Gaza’s Media Office. The Israeli army said airstrikes were launched in response to what it described as a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire by Hamas, a claim the group denied, saying Israel was fabricating “flimsy pretexts” to resume the war. (Int’l News Desk)
