YN: The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday night tried to assassinates it’s most wanted Palestinian terror suspect Muhammad Deif, head of Hamas’ military wing. The condition of the 40-year-old man, who already escaped three assassination attempts, was still unclear Wednesday morning.The IDF entered the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. Palestinians reported that a Palestinian police officer was killed, another was wounded in exchanges of fire with IDF soldiers in the Dir al-Balah area.

Simultaneously, the Israel Air Force struck a two-story building in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sheikh Raduan. The building collapsed. Six bodies, including two children and two women, were recovered from the wreckage. Some 36 people were injured. According to the defense establishment, the building was being used as a hiding place for Hamas members.

A senior Hamas member involved in the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit was killed in another strike.

Khaled Abu Saada, an ambulance driver, told Ynet that six bodies and 36 injured people were recovered from the wreckage. According to the reports, Dr. Nabli Abu Saleimeh, a lecturer at the Islamic University and a well known Hamas activist in the city, was killed. His wife, daughter, two sons and neighbor were also killed.

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the place and were asked by the rescue forces to leave the scene in order to make it easier to evacuate the injured.

The aerial strike was carried out in parallel to another stage of the IDF’s Gaza operation, this time in the central Strip, which was divided into two in the Kissufim area.

IDF officials said that the aerial strike was carried out after discovering that senior Hamas terror activists were in the building, apparently hiding in a room. The IDF added that the activists initiated and carried out acts of terror and fired Qassam rockets. There was also intelligence information on terror attacks and “serious” acts of terror they had planned to carry out in the future.

During the operation, the Air Force struck a Palestinian vehicle traveling near the building. Three Palestinians were injured in the attack, including Ahmed Gandor, a senior member of Hamas’ military wing, who was seriously wounded and evacuated to the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Gandor served as a Hamas commander in the northern Strip and has managed to escape several IDF strikes in the past. Gandor is one of the people responsible for the Qassam launching alignment, being the commander of Hamas in the northern Strip. Gandor was also suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit.

Another strike took place at around 5:30 a.m., when Palestinian sources in the Strip reported that the Air Force fired a missile at a vehicle near the central Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis.

According to the sources, three members of the Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees’ military wing, were in the place and one of them was killed. The sources added that the man killed was Hisham Abu Nuseiri, a senior member of the organization, whose people were involved in the kidnapping of Shalit.