The Israeli Air Force recently carried out a precision strike targeting two senior Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday morning.

Muhammad Jamil Salman Basous, a senior operative in the Gaza City Brigade’s engineering unit, was involved in supplying explosives to terrorist operatives and storing explosive materials at his residence. Muhammad Kamal Muhammad Al-Haj, a Nukhba company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion, was responsible for sniper attacks against IDF forces.

Additionally, Mahmoud Jamil Salman Basous, a platoon commander in Hamas’ Shejaiya Battalion and the brother of Muhammad Jamil Salman Basous, was also killed in the strike.

The IAF overnight Wednesday conducted a precision strike on a vehicle containing Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in the area of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, according to the IDF.

“Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence,” according to the military.

The Palestinian news agency Shahab reported that five journalists were killed in a separate attack near al-Awda Hospital.

Israeli forces operating in the southern and central parts of the Strip had destroyed underground terrorist infrastructure and eliminated Hamas gunmen, the IDF said earlier on Wednesday.

Also on Wednesday, the Israeli Air Force carried out a targeted strike on a Hamas terrorist in Gaza City’s Al Furqan area.

In recent weeks, the 143rd Division’s Southern Gaza Brigade carried out a targeted raid against Hamas infrastructure in the area. Among other achievements, the division’s engineering forces, working together with the Combat Engineering Corps’ elite Yahalom unit, found and destroyed two 1.2-mile-long attack tunnels.