The Israeli military and the Shin Bet said on Sunday, October 25, that airstrikes in Gaza last week killed two men they say moved millions of shekels to Hamas's military wing. According to the joint statement, Alaa Ibrahim Nimer Arshi, a cell commander in Hamas's military wing, was killed in a strike in the Gaza City area on Wednesday. Karam Riyad Hassan Abu Butaihan, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative, was killed a day earlier in the Nuseirat area, and the military says he helped transfer funds to Hamas. The IDF claims that during the war the two moved millions of shekels from Iran and Turkey to Hamas's military wing. It says the money recently helped the group try to rebuild its military capabilities and plan attacks on troops and Israeli civilians, which it calls a systematic violation of the ceasefire.

On Thursday, the IDF and Shin Bet also struck a weapons storage facility in the center of the Gaza Strip, which the military says Hamas's military wing used to store Kalashnikov-type rifles, a rocket launcher and rockets. The IDF says it used precision munitions and aerial surveillance and gave advance warnings before the strike, though its statement did not mention civilian casualties. The claims come from the Israeli military and I found no independent confirmation or response from Hamas or Islamic Jihad. The military says its troops remain deployed in Gaza under the agreement and will keep acting against any threat or attempt to rebuild militant capabilities. The big questions are how much the funding network really mattered, whether the ceasefire can hold under this pace of strikes, and what the toll has been on the Palestinian side.