According to an initial IDF probe, enemy snipers fired at a building used by troops and at an army excavator operating in Rafah\u2019s Jenina neighborhood at around 3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
The gunfire killed Feldbaum, who was operating the excavator.<\/p>\n
A short while later, the operatives fired several RPGs at the IDF forces, hitting an armored vehicle in the area but causing no additional injuries, according to the preliminary investigation.<\/p>\n
In an immediate response, the IDF said it struck several targets in the area that posed a threat to its troops, including buildings and tunnel shafts.<\/p>\n
\t The Jenina neighborhood is located on the eastern side of the Yellow Line that demarcates the military\u2019s pullback in the Gaza Strip \u2014 an area under Israeli control under the ceasefire.<\/p>\n Despite the area being under Israeli control, the IDF has assessed that is a pocket of operatives holed up there. As troops have worked to clear the neighborhood of Hamas infrastructure \u2014 including a tunnel network \u2014 operatives have emerged from underground and attempted attacks.<\/p>\n Last week, two soldiers were killed<\/a> in a similar attack in the same neighborhood, which prompted a wave of IDF airstrikes against Hamas.<\/p>\n Israel blamed Hamas for both attacks. The terror group has denied involvement.<\/p>\n Between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the Israeli Air Force conducted a wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip, with Hamas health authorities \u2014 which do not distinguish between civilians and combatants \u2014 reporting at least 104 dead, including dozens of women and children.<\/p>\n The army said that it had targeted over 30 commanders in Hamas and other terror groups in the Strip during the strikes.<\/p>\n \u201cIn accordance with the directive of the political echelon, and following a series of strikes, in which dozens of terror targets and terrorists were struck, the IDF has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire after Hamas violated it,\u201d the military said in a statement at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n \u201cThe IDF will continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement and will respond firmly to any violation of it,\u201d the military added.<\/p>\n Defense Minister Israel Katz, meanwhile, threatened Hamas leaders abroad following the deadly attack on troops in Rafah.<\/p>\n \u201cDozens of Hamas commanders were eliminated in a powerful IDF operation since yesterday in response to the attack on IDF soldiers and the blatant violation of the agreement to return the fallen hostages, in addition to strikes on dozens of infrastructure targets,\u201d Katz said in a statement as the ceasefire took effect again.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is and will be no immunity for anyone in the leadership of the Hamas terror organization, neither for those wearing suits nor for those hiding in tunnels. Anyone who raises a hand against IDF soldiers, his hand will be severed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Katz added that \u201canyone who attacks IDF soldiers and breaches agreements will pay the full price.\u201d<\/p>\n \t Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to carry out \u201cpowerful strikes\u201d in Gaza in response to Hamas\u2019s violation of the ceasefire, including the killing of the soldier and the terror group\u2019s failure to return the 13 remaining bodies of hostages as agreed in the ceasefire deal reached earlier this month.<\/p>\n Israel has accused Hamas of multiple violations of the deal, and has charged that the terror group knows the location of the vast majority, or even all, of the remaining bodies of hostages, and is purposely stalling and staging fake discoveries of bodies.<\/p>\n On Monday night, Hamas handed over partial remains it claimed belonged to one of the 13 hostages whose bodies are still in Gaza, but were later discovered by Israel to belong to a hostage who was recovered by Israeli troops in December 2023.<\/p>\n The military released footage showing Hamas staging the fake recovery of those remains<\/a>, bringing them out of a building and placing them in a large hole operatives had dug in the ground in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City. They then covered the body bag in dirt and pretended to uncover it for the first time in front of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n \t Separately, the military wing of the Hamas terror group announced on Tuesday night that it managed to \u201cretrieve\u201d the bodies of two hostages in the Gaza Strip earlier in the day, although it did not hand them over to Israel.<\/p>\n The Al-Qassam Brigades named the two hostages it claimed to have found on Tuesday. Israeli media outlets generally refrain from publishing the names until the families of the hostages have been notified.<\/p>\n Earlier Tuesday, Hamas said it had located the body of a hostage in a tunnel in southern Gaza, and planned to hand it over to Israel at 8 p.m. Hamas later said it was postponing the handover due to Israel\u2019s own \u201cviolations\u201d of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n Agencies contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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