Gaza Cease-fire

During the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, Israel carried out an airstrike west of Gaza City that it says killed Ra’ad (Raed) Sa’ad — whom the IDF identified as the head of Hamas’s weapons production and a key veteran explosives commander — and Palestinian health officials and journalists reported four dead and three wounded; Hamas confirmed his death and named a successor. The IDF justified the strike as targeting operatives “actively engaged in terrorism,” while U.S. officials privately told Prime Minister Netanyahu the attack violated the truce and was not coordinated with Washington.