Israeli attacks on Thursday reportedly killed six people across the Gaza Strip, while targeting and failing to kill a spokesman for the Hamas terror group.

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said six people were killed in Israeli drone strikes and gunfire. Hamas’s figures are unverified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Two people were killed and several others injured when an Israeli drone struck central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, the agency said, and four people were killed in other attacks.

Gaza hospitals said they received the bodies of six individuals killed in the attacks.

A security source in Gaza said an Israeli drone strike targeted the vehicle of Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for Hamas.

Qassem was not in the vehicle, but the strike killed his bodyguard, the source said.

The bodyguard was among the six fatalities reported by the civil defense agency.

The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond when asked about the attacks.

IDF: Islamic Jihad commander, Hamas sniper killed

The IDF did confirm that a commander in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s weapon production division was killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

The IDF said Thursday that the strike killed Rashid al-Qadhi, who “played a central role in various processes within the organization’s production array, which is responsible for manufacturing and supplying all weapons to the group’s military wing.”

A separate strike in northern Gaza on Wednesday killed Abdullah Baha al-Din Razak al-Souti, a Hamas sniper, according to the military.

The IDF said the activities of both terror operatives “posed a threat to our forces,” and they were therefore targeted.

The IDF in recent months has been ramping up strikes on terror operatives in Gaza, saying they posed a threat to Israeli forces, following the October 2025 ceasefire that halted........

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