The incident took place in the Jabalya refugee camp where Hamas has been trying to regroup. An initial probe found that a tank fired two shells at a building where soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade's 202nd Battalion were gathered.
The Israel Police reported on what it called a "large-scale fraud" committed in the name of Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers. A suspect in Jerusalem was arrested and indicted in what police described as "sophisticated fraud crimes" with an estimated value of half a million Shekels, while
In addition, overnight an IDF soldier in the Rotem Battalion of the Givati Infantry Brigade was seriously wounded in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
During what the police called a "targeted operation" that lasted over 12 hours, the forces closed in on the building and the terrorist squad opened fire on them.
In addition, the fighters of the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF) sea arm attacked othertargets and provided fire support to the forces of the IDF's 99th reserve infantry division operating in the center of the Gaza Strip