{"id":246538,"date":"2026-08-12T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/246538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:10:10","slug":"1-killed-in-israels-first-gaza-strike-in-over-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/246538\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed in Israel\u2019s first Gaza strike in over a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel on Wednesday carried out its first air strike in more than a week in Gaza, both sides said, breaking a relative lull as the US pressed a peace plan.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas commander, charging that he had been planning attacks against Israeli forces operating in the war-battered territory.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe terrorist was struck in an aerial strike in order to remove the threat to IDF troops,\u201d a military statement said, adding that it tried to mitigate civilian harm.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency, a rescue service under Hamas, said the strike in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip targeted civilians riding in a tuk-tuk.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The strike killed Mohanad Saada, whose body was \u201ctorn to pieces\u201d, and wounded five other people, according to the civil defence agency and al-Shifa Hospital.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A witness said Saada was among a group of workers who were repairing a wall damaged by Israeli shelling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An internally displaced Palestinian man walks past the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in Khan Younis on Tuesday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b49732b7-c101-4db5-b6de-32c215c2cd1e_ed18453d.jpg\" title=\"An internally displaced Palestinian man walks past the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in Khan Younis on Tuesday. Photo: AFP\"\/>An internally displaced Palestinian man walks past the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in Khan Younis on Tuesday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel on Wednesday carried out its first air strike in more than a week in Gaza, both sides&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[21495,68545,41,38,496,2254,1411,37,2412,68546,68547,7888],"class_list":["post-246538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-al-shifa-hospital","tag-beit-lahia","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-mahmoud-bassal","tag-mohanad-saada","tag-palestinian"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117083886552601917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}