Despite the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, there have been several violent encounters involving armed or masked Palestinians, according to an Israeli military spokesperson.
One such encounter resulted in the death of a man identified as a fighter for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Soldiers also fired warning shots to keep masked suspects at a distance. The army is committed to adhering to the ceasefire.
It has urged Palestinians to avoid military personnel.
Israeli troops removed their vehicles from Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as planned.
The military posted photographs showing a column of tanks departing the region along the border line.
Chronicle NG reports that at least three female hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their mothers inside Israel.
Armed Hamas fighters drove through the southern city of Khan Younis, where crowds cheered and chanted.
People navigated narrow roads through a shattered landscape of wreckage and twisted metal in the north of the region, which had been blasted into oblivion during the war’s most fierce combat.
“I feel like at last I found some water to drink after being lost in the desert for 15 months,” Aya, a displaced woman from Gaza City who has been sheltering in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip for over a year, said after the fighting stopped. “I feel alive again.”
