Overview
- - The IDF and Shin Bet said they struck and killed Khamis Muhammad Khamis Qassas after he approached troops near the Yellow Line in southern Gaza.
- - Officials said an intelligence review identified Qassas as a participant in the October 7 raid on Kibbutz Nir Oz and accused him of guiding fighters to the border area and directing further attacks.
- - Israeli forces later reported killing one suspect who neared troops by the Yellow Line in northern Gaza and another who crossed the boundary in the south.
- - Palestinian media reported five people killed in Beit Lahia, including three children, and said the strike hit a mosque compound, with no independent confirmation of the details.
- - The Yellow Line is a control zone along the Gaza-Israel boundary, and activity there has become a focus of Israeli strikes as competing accounts and limited verification continue under a tenuous cease-fire.