The Israeli Air Force killed an armed terrorist during operations in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
The terrorist was killed by an airstrike after being identified near the ceasefire-imposed Yellow Line, “posing an imminent threat to IDF soldiers,” the military said.
On Saturday, the IDF eliminated Bahaa Baroud, a commander in Hamas’ Operations Headquarters.
Throughout the war, and particularly in recent weeks, Baroud planned and advance numerous terror attacks on behalf of Hamas against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, the IDF said in a statement.
Baroud posed an immediate threat to IDF troops and was struck and eliminated in a precise aerial strike.
Prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance.
In another incident on Saturday, the IAF struck a terrorist who approached troops in the central Strip.
Israeli forces remain deployed in Gaza in accordance with the ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States and will continue to eliminate immediate threats, the statement continued.
The truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, 2025, ending the two-year war that began when Hamas, other Palestinian terrorist groups and Gazan “civilians” invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people, primarily civilians, and taking 251 hostages. The terms of the ceasefire leave the IDF in control of approximately half of Gaza.
On Friday, the head of Hamas’s “military wing,” Izz al-Din al-Haddad, was killed in a precision airstrike in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said al-Haddad was the “chief murderer” and a key figure behind the Oct. 7 massacre.
“Every terrorist is a marked man; we will pursue and reach them all,” the premier said.
