Overnight, the IDF says it carried out a drone strike against a cell of Hamas gunmen

Overnight, the IDF says it carried out a drone strike against a cell of Hamas gunmen outside Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood.

The armed terror operatives were "identified storing weapons and equipping themselves with weapons at the hospital compound and using it as a place of shelter," the military says.

The IDF says Hamas "continues to use hospitals in the Gaza Strip for terror purposes, cynically and brutally exploiting the civilian population in and around the hospital."

During the strike, which was directed by the 990th Artillery Regiment and carried out by an Israeli Air Force drone, the IDF says it took steps to mitigate civilian harm, "including the use of precise munition, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence."