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The Israeli military said on Wednesday it conducted a fresh strike in the area of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip targeting a “terrorist infrastructure” site where weapons were stored. The military said earlier it had resumed enforcing the Gaza ceasefire agreement after a series of strikes across the enclave that it said was in response to Hamas violations. Residents in Gaza City said they heard an explosion in northern Gaza and saw a column of smoke. The latest attack comes 24 hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a new wave of strikes on the enclave, which Gaza health authorities say killed 104 people. The latest strikes continue to heap pressure on the ‘ceasefire’ that came into effect two weeks ago when US president Donald Trump announced there was “peace in the Middle East”. An Israeli military statement said: “The IDF attacked a terrorist infrastructure that stored weapons and airborne means that posed an immediate threat in the northern Gaza Strip. “A short time ago, the IDF carried out a targeted attack in the Beit Lahia area in the northern Gaza Strip, led by the Southern Command and through the Air Force, on a terrorist infrastructure that stored weapons and airborne means intended to be used to carry out a terrorist plan in the immediate term against IDF forces and the State of Israel. “IDF forces in the Southern Command are deployed in the region in accordance with the outline of the ceasefire agreement and will continue to act to remove any immediate threat.” More follows on this breaking story....
