The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that it carried out a strike on armed men who hijacked an aid convoy in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Times of Israel reported. A convoy from the American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera), with IDF coordination, entered southern Rafah before “armed men took over a vehicle at the front of the convoy (a jeep) and began to lead it.”. Shortly after, the IDF established that it could attack the car containing the armed men without damaging the rest of the convoy and carried out the strike. “There was no damage to the other vehicles in the convoy and it reached its destination according to the plan. The attack on the armed men removed the threat of them taking over the humanitarian convoy,” the IDF said, adding that Anera confirmed that all of its members were left unharmed.
