Eight killed in Israeli operation in Gaza
Israeli forces have killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in an apparently botched undercover raid and ensuing firefight that has threatened to destroy a precarious, unofficial ceasefire, The Guardian reported.
An Israeli lieutenant colonel was killed and another officer wounded in the operation on Sunday night in south-east Gaza, the first known ground incursion there by Israeli forces since the last war in 2014.
In apparent response to the gunfight, more than a dozen rockets were launched from the Hamas-controlled enclave overnight. Hamas officials said at least seven people were killed, four of them militants, including the Hamas commander Nour Baraka.