IDF names terrorists killed in Gaza, Palestinians claim journalists targeted
Palestinian media claimed that 10 were killed in strikes, including five journalists, while the IDF said key terrorists were attacked
The Israel Defense Forces stated that terrorists had been targeted in an attack on the Zeitoun neighborhood of the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian sources, however, said that 10 people were killed, including five journalists in the Nusseirat area.
Israeli authorities said that a senior Hamas engineering unit commander, Muhammad Jamil Salman Basous, was targeted, along with Muhammad Kamal Muhammad al-Haj, a Nukhba company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion.
Basous supplied explosives to terrorists and stored explosives in his houme, while al-Haj perpetrated sniper attacks against Israeli forces.
Both Basous and his brother, Muhammad Jamil Salman Basous, were eliminated in the strike.
The Israeli army said that, "Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence. The IDF will continue to operate against Hamas in defense of the citizens of Israel."
In the Nuseirat strike, the IDF named terrorists Ibrahim Jamal Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, Faisal Abdallah Muhammad Abu Qamsan, Mohammed Ayad Khamis al-Lada'a, Ayman Nihad Abd Alrahman Jadi, and Fadi Ihab Muhammad Ramadan Hassouna. All of them were Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists.