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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Israel says it opened fire in Gaza, even as a ceasefire

deal remains in place between Israel and Hamas. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports. The Israeli military

said its troops opened fire on, quote, several suspects.

It said these individuals were crossing the yellow line that marks the boundary Israeli troops

have pulled back to in the first phase of the U.S. brokered peace plan for Gaza.

The military asked Gaza residents not to approach troops in this area and said those individuals were violating the ceasefire agreement.

Hamas in a statement said it was Israel who violated the truce and that a number of Gaza residents were killed as a result.

Gaza's local health authority said six Palestinians have been killed in two separate events in the strip.

Overall, though, for now, the ceasefire is broadly still holding.

Ruth Sherlock, NPR News.

Hundreds of workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are getting laid off today.

About 11% of the staff will be affected.

As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boise reports, these layoffs are not

related to the government shutdown. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California is owned by

NASA and managed by Caltech. It's been responsible for high-profile robotic space missions,

like the Voyager probes and Mars Rovers. It operates the deep space network used to communicate with faraway spacecraft,

and is currently working on missions like a robotic probe that will go to an icy moon of Jupiter, Europa.

The head of the lab, Dave Gallagher, says the layoffs are part of a reorganization that began in July,

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