According to a report by Times of Israel, The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed that a drone strike was carried out on the Khan Younis municipality building in the southern Gaza Strip, which was allegedly being used by Hamas operatives.
According to the IDF, the building housed a tunnel shaft that connected to Hamas's underground network in Khan Younis, and was also used as a staging ground for the militant group's activities. The military claims that it took several steps to mitigate harm to civilians before carrying out the strike, including evacuating Palestinians from the area.
"Hamas operates within the humanitarian area and regularly violates international law, systematically exploiting civilian buildings and the civilian population as human shields for terror activity against the State of Israel," the IDF stated.
The strike comes after a prominent Hezbollah member was killed in an Israeli drone strike in northeastern Lebanon yesterday. The IDF has been engaged in a series of military operations in the Gaza Strip, including the deployment of two reserve brigades to the area.
In related news, the IDF reported that it killed a terrorist who launched a rocket from Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood at the Israeli border town of Nahal Oz yesterday. The strike was carried out a short while after the rocket attack.