Raed Saad was killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Gaza City that the IDF said targeted a senior Hamas commander accused of rebuilding the group’s weapons network and helping plan the cross‑border attacks that sparked the war.Gaza health authorities, hospital morgues, local journalists and WAFA gave differing casualty counts, while Palestinian sources cited by "Haaretz" said multiple people were killed and a drone struck a vehicle near the Nablus crossing as heavy rains and Storm Byron worsened humanitarian shortages.Benjamin Netanyahu and
Israel Katz said the strike was a response to an earlier militant attack,
Hamas condemned it as a violation of the US‑brokered ceasefire, and
Reuters reported that
US intelligence withheld certain information from Israel near the end of
Joe Biden's presidency.