The military announced on Tuesday that several Hamas commanders and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, were killed in recent strikes in the Gaza Strip.

The Israel Defense Forces told The Times of Israel that a Tuesday strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood targeted a terror operative in the area, and said further details would be provided later.

Palestinian media in the Strip reported that two were killed in the strike, including a child identified as Muhammad al-Zinati; his age was not specified.

The reports said that seven others were wounded in the strike.

Witnesses said additional casualties resulted from a second strike that hit near a group of people who rushed to help in the rescue.

An unverified video published by Palestinian media showed a missile exploding near at least five men.

Earlier Tuesday, the IDF announced that it had killed two senior Hamas commanders in strikes the day before, as well as a member of the terror group’s weapons production unit.

One of the commanders was identified as Ahmad al-Batash, who, according to the IDF, was the commander of the Jabalia Battalion in Hamas’s North Gaza Brigade. Palestinian media published a “martyr poster” identifying Batash as a senior commander in the terror group.

He was killed in a strike on a car in northern Gaza late Monday night.

As it has in the wake of other recent strikes, the military said Batash was involved lately in advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians and tried to restore Hamas’s capabilities “in systematic violation of the ceasefire.”

“The terrorist was eliminated to remove the threat he posed,” the army said.

The other senior Hamas commander was identified by the IDF as Rafat Abu Zamar, a company commander in the terror group’s operations division.

According to the army, Abu Zamar led training for........

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