Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed at least 10 people and wounded 15, according to Palestinian media, with the IDF saying the airstrikes targeted Hamas operatives.

The first strike, in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, targeted a Hamas company commander who invaded Israel on October 7, according to the military. Palestinian media reported that one person riding a motorcycle was killed in that strike.

Less than half an hour later, the military struck a police station in Gaza City, killing nine people and wounding 15, according to Palestinian media.

The target of that strike was a Hamas commander and several other operatives who were alongside him, the army said.

The IDF asserted that the terror operatives had planned to carry out attacks on Israeli troops operating in the Strip, justifying the strikes amid the ceasefire.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem condemned what he called Israel’s “complete disregard for all calls for a ceasefire.”

Qassem said US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace “bears responsibility for this escalation due to its failure to fulfill its obligations by pressuring the occupation” — how Hamas refers to Israel — to abide by its commitments.

In a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, US envoy Jared Kushner pressed the Israeli premier to hold back on its targeted airstrikes on Hamas commanders in Gaza, a request Netanyahu rejected, according to an official present at the sit-down.

Wednesday’s strikes came a day after another unusually deadly Israeli strike in Gaza, with the IDF saying it had targeted a meeting of Hamas commanders and elite operatives in Gaza City in an attack that the Hamas-run civil defense agency killed six and wounded 14.

The military said the strike, near the city’s port, targeted commanders and members of Hamas’s Nukhba Force, which led the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel that started the war in Gaza.

Earlier Wednesday, the IDF announced that two Hamas tunnels, spanning in total some two kilometers........

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