JERUSALEM (VINnews)-The Israel Defense Forces carried out multiple airstrikes overnight and into Sunday morning in the Gaza Strip, targeting terror operatives in response to what the military described as a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire the previous day.

The strikes hit sites in northern Gaza, Gaza City and Khan Younis, the IDF said. Among those killed was Ahmad Bayouk, a Hamas terrorist who the military says infiltrated and raided the Re’im military base during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led onslaught on southern Israel.

The IDF reported that the strikes followed an incident late Saturday in which five Palestinian gunmen emerged from a tunnel and approached Israeli troops on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line. The targeted operatives “had recently been working to restore the capabilities of the terror organizations in the Strip and were advancing terror attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel,” the military stated.

Separately, the IDF announced that a strike Monday in southern Gaza’s Rafah — carried out in response to an earlier attack by gunmen on troops there — eliminated Azem Abu Huli, a commander in Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s elite forces in central Gaza.

Abu Huli was responsible for supplying weapons to other terror operatives and advancing attacks against Israeli forces, according to the IDF. He commanded Islamic Jihad terrorists who invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and, throughout the ongoing conflict, trained operatives “to practice scenarios involving the abduction of IDF soldiers,” the army added.

The strikes come amid a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire that took effect in October, aimed at halting more than two years of intense fighting following the Oct. 7 attacks. While large-scale hostilities have subsided, the ceasefire has been marked by periodic incidents and Israeli responses to perceived threats.

No immediate casualty figures from the latest strikes were provided by Palestinian sources, and there was no independent verification of the IDF’s claims regarding the identities and roles of those killed.