As Iranian missiles struck Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on Thursday morning, in nearby Gaza, IDF troops continued operations in the enclave, the military said in an update.
In Rafah in the south, Gaza Division ground troops focused on the Janina neighborhood, where the IDF said terrorist infrastructure had been destroyed. Several fighters who began to move towards them and “posed a threat” were struck.
Slightly northward, in Khan Yunis, the 36th Division, over the past few days, located tunnel shafts, weapons, and explosives and also fought Hamas fighters, the military said on Thursday.
In Gaza, medics said that at least 51 people were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes, including 12 people who tried to approach a site operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip.
Gazan health authorities are controlled by Hamas and cannot be separately verified by an independent party.
The IDF said there were several attempts by “suspects” to approach forces in the area of Netzarim in the central Gaza Strip in a manner that endangered them. It said forces fired warning shots to prevent suspects from approaching them, and it was currently unaware of injuries in the incident.
In an email, GHF criticized Gazan health officials, accusing them of regularly releasing inaccurate information. GHF said that Palestinians do not access the nearby GHF site via the Netzarim corridor.
Thirty-nine people were killed, meanwhile, in separate Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said. One of those strikes killed at least 19 people, including women and children, in a tent in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, they added.
Another strike killed at least 14 people and damaged several houses in Jabalya, in the north of the enclave, medics said.
A drone infiltrated Israeli airspace from the East at around 3 p.m. on Thursday in the Jordan Valley area. It was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force.
Later in the afternoon, security forces thwarted a smuggling attempt in the Jordan Valley area. The bags that were confiscated carried weapon parts.
In the northern West Bank, the already-expanded operations against terrorist activity expanded to another town in the Sa-Nur area, the military said.
Airstrike kills Hezbollah fighter
The IDF said that on Wednesday, an airstrike killed Yassin Abd al-Mun’im ‘Izz al-Din, a Hezbollah fighter in the Barish area in southern Lebanon in the Tyre area. The military said he was working on shooting routes towards the North and on regurgitating the terrorist group’s artillery capabilities.
On Wednesday night, the military killed Muhammad Ahmed Kharis, an anti-tank missiles commander for Hezbollah, in the Nabatiya area in southern Lebanon. He advanced shooting paths towards Israel, including the missiles towards Mount Dov (the Shabaa Farms). This launch killed Sharif Suad on April 26, 2024.
The IDF said he “continued to advance terror activity in southern Lebanon in a way that violated the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
“The IDF continues to monitor and thwart Hezbollah’s attempts to increase its readiness to strike the State of Israel under the cover of the war with Iran. The IDF will continue to eliminate any threat posed to the State of Israel.”
The IDF announced later on Thursday that it struck a Hezbollah fighter repairing the terrorist group’s infrastructure in the Houla area in southern Lebanon.
The military also announced that it destroyed the home of the terrorist who carried out a shooting attack at the Gitai Avisar Junction on November 29, 2024.
Combat engineers in the Palestinian town of Einabus in the West Bank destroyed the home of Samer Hussein, who carried out the attack. Affiliated with Hamas, Hussein fired at a bus and the bus stop where several soldiers were standing.
The attack injured nine people, five civilians and four soldiers. Troops on-site killed the terrorist at the scene of the attack.