Israel: IDF gives update on overnight military operations

The Israeli army says its military operations in the north of Gaza continued overnight, thwarting “many attempts” by Hamas fighters to attack Israeli soldiers from tunnel shafts and military compounds. In one of the battles on Friday, the army said Israeli troops killed “a number” of Hamas fighters and destroyed three observation posts of the armed group. During “a targeted raid” in the south of the Strip to map buildings and defuse explosives, the Israeli army said it killed a group of Palestinian fighters coming out of a tunnel shaft.