The Israel Defense Forces said it struck a Hamas arms depot in Gaza City on Friday in response to an attack on troops a day earlier, after issuing an evacuation warning for a residential building for the first time since the start of the ceasefire.

Gunmen attacked troops in the Strip’s north on Thursday, in an incident described by the IDF as a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. No soldiers were wounded.

The IDF said Friday that an overnight strike on a Hamas weapon production site in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis was also in response to the attack on troops.

There were no reports of injuries in either of the strikes.

“As part of the strikes, the IDF targeted a site used by the Hamas terror organization for weapons production and a weapons storage facility belonging to the organization,” the military said.

The IDF carried out the strikes, reportedly on a three-story residential building, an hour after it warned it would strike “Hamas terror infrastructure” at the........

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