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The Israeli army said on Friday that the attacks it carried out throughout Thursday in Gaza, which caused at least eight deaths, were directed against commanders of the Islamist group Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
"The IDF (Israel Defense Forces, the army) and the ISA (the internal intelligence agency, the Shin Bet) attacked several terrorists, including commanders of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations throughout the Gaza Strip," according to a military statement.
Since the night and early hours of this Friday, at least three more people have died in two separate attacks, raising the total number of deaths to at least eleven.
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According to The Times of Israel, a bombing tonight in the Nuseirat refugee camp (central Gaza) killed a commander of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, identified as Ahraf Al Jatib. The attack also claimed the life of his wife. On the other hand, Nasser Hospital in Jan Yunis (south) confirmed this morning the death of a 62-year-old man, whom it identified as Sabah Ahmed Ali Abu Jamea. The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that Abu Jamea was shot from an Israeli army vehicle in the west of Khan Yunis, in an attack in which other people were injured. The Israeli armed forces have not yet commented on the matter. Among the eight deaths reported by Gazan authorities on Thursday was Mohamed Al Hawli, a commander of the Al Qasam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas), whose death was confirmed by one of the leaders of the Islamist group, Osama Hamdam. The attack, a bombing in the city of Deir al Balah (center), also killed Al Hawli's wife and daughter. The Israeli Army states in its statement this Friday that the attacks are a "response to the blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement earlier this week in western Rafah (in the southern end of Gaza)." The violation mentioned by the armed forces refers to a shooting on Tuesday in Rafah between Israeli troops and a group of alleged Palestinian militants. The soldiers killed six Palestinians during the encounter. The Israeli armed forces have killed more than 450 people in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, claiming in most cases to have killed "terrorists" approaching the yellow line (the imaginary demarcation to which the troops withdrew at the beginning of the truce, after which a perimeter under their military control extends). Unicef says that among the dead there are more than a hundred children. The yellow line was not marked in Gaza, which confused its population and led to the killing of numerous Gazans trying to return to their homes by accessing areas under Israeli control. EFE has also warned on several occasions how the troops have attacked people who had not crossed this line. This border is now poorly marked with concrete cubes, which the army sometimes moves to gain ground, even though the ceasefire agreement stipulates that Israel cannot reoccupy the territory it abandoned after its withdrawal.
