Israel strikes Gaza, targeting Hamas leader
Israel said it conducted a strike in Gaza City targeting "key Hamas terrorist."
The ceasefire in Gaza is broadly holding, with Israeli forces inside the strip having pulled back to the so-called "yellow line." Israel Defense Forces chief Eyal Zamir said the position constitutes "a new border line" with Gaza.
Sporadic clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza militants -- plus deadly IDF airstrikes -- continue despite the ceasefire, which is still in the first of three proposed phases. The details of the second phase of the agreement are yet to be agreed.
Israeli strikes are also ongoing against alleged Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon.
The remains of one deceased hostage are still thought to be in Gaza.
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Israel strikes Gaza targeting Hamas leader
Israel said it conducted a strike in Gaza City targeting "a key Hamas terrorist" on Saturday. Israel claims he was working "to reestablish Hamas' capabilities and weapons manufacturing."
Residents reported hearing bombing in western Gaza City.
Video from the scene of the strike in Gaza shows a burned out car and the driver dead at the wheel as rescuers work at the scene.
A paramedic told the Reuters cameraman that four people were killed and were six injured.
-ABC News' Nasser Atta, Samy Zyara and Diaa Ostaz
379 people killed in Gaza since ceasefire, health officials say
The Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza said in a social media post on Wednesday that two people were killed by Israeli fire in the previous 24 hours, with the body of one person who was killed earlier also recovered.
The three casualties brought the overall death toll since the ceasefire came into effect on Oct. 11 to 379 people, the ministry said, with 922 people also wounded. A total of 627 additional bodies have been recovered in that time, the ministry said.
The death toll since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, now stands at 70,369 people with another 171,069 wounded, the ministry said.
Health officials said they expect to find more victims as recovery teams work through rubble in the devastated strip.
Israeli forces strike targets in southern Lebanon
Israeli forces struck infrastructure targets in southern Lebanon a "short while ago," the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF said it struck a compound being used by Hezbollah to conduct training.
"In addition, military structures and a launch site belonging to Hezbollah, used to advance terror attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel, were also struck," the IDF said.
The IDF said the targets and military training "constitute a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon."
Israeli police raid UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem, UNRWA says
Israeli police on Monday raided the East Jerusalem headquarters of UNRWA, the U.N. agency representing Palestinian refugees, according to UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, an action that Israeli officials said was instead carried out under the authority of the Jerusalem Municipality over what it alleged were unpaid property taxes.
Lazzarini said that property, including IT equipment, was seized, and he said the U.N. flag was pulled down and replaced by an Israeli flag.
"This latest action represents a blatant disregard of Israel’s obligation as a United Nations Member State to protect & respect the inviolability of UN premises," Lazzarini wrote on social media.
An Israeli police spokesperson told ABC News, "The referenced action is being carried out by the Jerusalem Municipality as part of a debt-collection procedure. Police are present to secure the municipality’s activity." ABC News has asked the Israeli police for additional information.
The seizure of UNRWA equipment by the municipality followed years of accusations against the U.N. agency by Israeli officials, who have said the organization's ranks include members of Hamas or other terror groups. Twelve members of UNRWA staff were fired for their alleged involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, according to the U.N.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called in January 2024 for the agency to be replaced, saying, "UNRWA is totally infiltrated with Hamas."
Israel's legislative body, the Knesset, voted in October 2024 to ban UNRWA from operating in Israel, including in East Jerusalem. Another bill passed at the same time prohibited Israeli government agencies, including those operating in the West Bank or Gaza, from working with UNRWA.
Lazzarini said in a statement that the East Jerusalem compound was vacated near the beginning of 2025, when that “anti-UNRWA legislation” came into effect.
Officials with the U.N. pushed back on the Israeli clam that the agency's compound had been subject to debt collection. Lazzarini in his statement on Monday said the U.N. "property and assets [are] immune from legal process" under the U.N.'s 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities.
Under that convention, which Israel ratified in September 1949, a few months after it joined the U.N. as a full member state, the Israeli government was obligated to not tax local U.N. property. The International Court of Justice in an advisory opinion issued in October 2025 said that Israel continued to be subject to its obligations under that convention.
That advisory opinion said the U.N. had not been able to substantiate Israel's January 2024 claims that UNRWA had had lost its neutrality and that about 1,462 of UNRWA staffers -- more than 10% of the agency -- were members or Hamas or other terror organizations. As such, the advisory opinion said, Israel continued to be obligated to facilitate UNWRA in its efforts to bring aid to the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian areas.
The Jerusalem Municipality in a statement published by Reuters said the UNRWA compound had unpaid property taxes totalling about $3.4 million.
The municipality reportedly said in a statement that it had not received replies to "repeated requests, warnings and numerous opportunities given to settle" the alleged debt, though the U.N. disputed that.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called the raid an "unauthorized entry," saying he "strongly" condemned the action.
"This compound is inviolable & immune from any other form of interference," Guterres said in a statement posted to social media. "I urge Israel to immediately take all necessary steps to restore, preserve & uphold the inviolability of UNRWA premises & to refrain from taking any further action with regard to these premises."
-ABC News' Guy Davies
This post has been updated.