Israel's military says it targeted a Hamas commander planning attacks in Gaza

Aug 12 (Reuters) - An ‌Israeli airstrike ​critically ​wounded a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, in an attack the Israeli military ‌said targeted a Hamas commander planning attacks against ⁠Israeli troops operating in the territory.

It was the first such ‌airstrike in over a ‌week, after Israel scaled back major attacks under U.S. pressure to implement the latest iteration of ​President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza.

Palestinian medics and witnesses said the man ⁠who was wounded was riding on a rickshaw in Beit Lahiya in ​the northern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military said in a statement that the man targeted ​was hit in an aerial ‌strike in order to remove the threat to Israeli military troops.

It added that ⁠its forces would remain deployed in the area under the Southern Command in accordance with the agreement and would ⁠continue operations against immediate threats.

Israeli fire has killed more than ​1,250 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, since a U.S.-backed ceasefire halted two years of full-scale war in October.

It ‌is unclear how many of those killed might be militants since Hamas does ‌not usually disclose information about dead fighters.

Four Israeli soldiers ⁠were killed by ‌militants in Gaza over ​the same period, according to an Israeli tally.

(Reporting by Nidal Al-Mughrabi; Editing by Aidan ‌Lewis)

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