Terrorist involved in October 7 attack killed in Gaza strike, says IDF
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A terrorist named Yasser Ghandi, who allegedly participated in the October 7 attack on Israel, was killed in the frequent IDF drone strike in Gaza, The Times Of Israel reported.
According to the report by the news agency, the Israeli military said it had targeted a cell where gunmen were spotted operating in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Among the dead was Ghandi who according to the IDF infiltrated into Israel and participated in the attacks on October 7.
The IDF claim came the same day an Israeli strike hit the tents of displaced Palestinians in the central Gazan city of Deir Al-Balah, killing two people.
Video obtained by Reuters showed firefighters battling a fire in at least one of the tents and what appeared to be tins of canned food lying among the debris.
The strike on the tents came as the Israeli military said on Tuesday it had delivered hundreds of packets of food to cut-off areas of northern Gaza.
On the same day, US President Joe Biden's administration concluded that Israel was not violating US law on the level of aid entering Gaza even as aid agencies said it was still not enough.
Israel had announced the opening of an additional aid crossing into Gaza, just hours before the deadline set by outgoing President Joe Biden's administration to improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza or risk a cut to military assistance.
Last month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin sent a letter to Israel setting a deadline of November 13 to comply with US law on permitting humanitarian assistance.
Asked if Israel had met the demands, State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said: "We have not made an assessment that they are in violation of US law.
"The overall humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to be unsatisfactory. But in the context of the letter, it's not about whether we find something satisfactory or not; it's what are the actions that we're seeing.
"These actions that we have seen, we think that these are steps in the right direction," he added.
The US finding comes despite Israel not meeting a series of metrics set explicitly in the letter, including allowing a minimum of 350 trucks per day into Gaza.
(With inputs from agencies)
