Troops of the Kfir Brigade operating in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya have discovered and demolished a Hamas rocket launcher primed for an attack on Israeli border communities, the military says.The IDF says the soldiers also killed several gunmen who were holed up in a building in the area.

These defensive and offensive operations have eliminated terrorists, located weapons, and dismantled infrastructure, including underground hideouts and storage.Additionally, Overnight, the IAF conducted intelligence-based strikes on Hezbollah weapons storage facilities and command centers in the Dahieh area,

Residents said Israeli forces besieged shelters housing displaced families and the remaining population, which some estimated at a few thousand, ordering them to head south through a checkpoint separating two towns and a refugee camp in the north from Gaza City.

Four Israeli soldiers have been killed in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military reported on Tuesday. The dead soldiers were non-commissioned officers aged 20 and 21, it said. Israeli media reports said they were killed when an antitank weapon fired by Palestinian forces struck a building where they were sheltering in the Jabalia refugee camp to the north of Gaza City.

Four more Israeli troops were killed in Hamas ambush in besieged northern Gaza strip, the IDF has announced. This after one Israeli military officer was killed in missile fire in Gaza strip. The latest deaths put the overall toll of Israeli troops in ground fighting to 375 since last year.