The Israeli Navy struck a number of Hamas terror squads operating near ground forces in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defence Forces said on Monday morning.
The IDF said naval forces struck several buildings where Hamas operatives were hiding. The navy also struck positions where Hamas squads had launched mortars and fired upon Israeli soldiers.
Meanwhile, the Air Force killed a Hamas commander in an air strike in the area of Khan Yunis.
A separate air strike killed several terrorists carrying a rocket, the IDF added.
In northern Gaza, soldiers directed an airstrike on a building where Hamas operatives were hiding. At least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. The number of men, women, children, soldiers and foreigners held captive in
Gaza by Hamas is now believed to be 129.
Other people remain unaccounted for as Israeli authorities continue to identify bodies and search for human remains.
Israeli forces have also demolished the illegal West Bank outpost of Givat Or Meir, near the Ofra settlement, as part of an evacuation operation led by Border Police and Civil Administration personnel. The outpost, established a year ago, housed settler youth activists who were raising goats on the land.
The demolition included a rudimentary building and a goat pen. Activists claimed that Border Police confiscated cellphones to prevent recording of the demolition and seized a generator and water troughs for the goats. Givat Or Meir has faced multiple demolitions, and herding outposts like this are established by radical settler activists to control larger land areas. Reports from watchdog groups suggest residents of such outposts engage in alleged violent attacks against local Palestinians. The Civil Administration has not provided immediate responses regarding the land ownership of the outpost.