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The Israeli military announced that two Hamas engineers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, according to reporting in The Times of Israel's live coverage of events on September 13, 2026, a day after the start of the Jewish New Year holiday of Rosh Hashanah. The IDF identified the men as operatives of the Hamas terror group rather than civilians; the strike was one of a series of targeted Israeli attacks carried out during the fragile post-ceasefire period in the Gaza Strip. Israel has continued to conduct strikes on individuals it says violate the truce or are involved in rebuilding Hamas's military capabilities. The incident occurred against a backdrop of stalled ceasefire implementation, with negotiations deadlocked over the requirement that Hamas disarm and Israel withholding further troop withdrawals. Life in Gaza City has partially resumed, with Palestinian fishermen again putting out to sea from the damaged seaport, even as targeted strikes continue. The event illustrated the precarious nature of the truce roughly eleven months after the October 2025 hostage-and-ceasefire agreement.