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2026-03-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli strike reportedly kills four in central Gaza; no immediate comment from IDF
[IsraelTimes] Strike in Nuseirat comes following reports of Palestinians killed Friday and Saturday in the Strip; IDF says it killed 20 Gaza terror operatives over past week

At least four Paleostinians, including two boys and a woman who was pregnant with twins, were killed Sunday in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the war-torn Gazoo Strip, authorities in the enclave’s hospitals said.

The strike hit a house in Nuseirat, an urban refugee camp in central Gaza, killing a couple in their 30s and their 10-year son, according to the nearby al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

The fourth fatality, a 15-year-old neighbor, was taken to Awda hospital in Nuseirat. The boy’s younger brother was maimed in the strike, the hospital said.

"We were sleeping and got up to the strike of a missile. The strike was strong," said Mahmoud al-Muhtaseb, a neighbor. "There was no prior warning."

The toll could not be immediately independently verified, and there was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF frequently says its strikes in Gaza come in response to Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’s violations of the ceasefire in the Strip, which took effect in October.

The ceasefire largely halted fighting between Israel and Hamas following the two-year war sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.

Six other people were killed by Israeli strikes between Friday night and Saturday morning, according to Paleostinian reports. The IDF said it had killed three Paleostinian button men since Friday.

Over the past week, Israeli troops have killed some 20 Paleostinian terror operatives who allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, according to the military.

On Sunday, the military said that over the previous week, Israeli troops killed some 20 Paleostinian terror operatives who violated the terms of the ceasefire. They included those who allegedly crossed the ceasefire line or planned attacks on soldiers.

Earlier on Sunday, the IDF said troops killed a Paleostinian gunman who opened fire on them in the southern Gaza Strip. Soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade were conducting clearing operations of Hamas infrastructure in the Rafah area when they identified the armed terror operative, the military said.

According to the military, the operative opened fire on the paratroopers, who then returned fire and killed him. No soldiers were hurt.

Another of those killed by troops of the 98th Division over the past week was identified by the IDF as a deputy company commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, from the Beit Lahiya Battalion, who the military said invaded Israel during the October 7 attack and had been planning a sniper attack on troops.

And in the Khan Younis area, the IDF said, troops of the Gaza Division located a rocket manufacturing site belonging to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group. In another incident on Friday in the Khan Younis area, the IDF says it carried out a strike against two armed Hamas operatives, both of whom were killed.

In Rafah, a Hamas attack tunnel was demolished, the military said. # id) ?>
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