The Israeli Air Force struck militants from the Palestinian groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas who it said were “conducting terrorist activity within” the humanitarian zone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Wednesday. Before the “precise strike,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a Telegram post, “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence. “This is a further example of the Hamas terrorist organization’s systematic abuse of civilian infrastru…