The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, announced that an occupation army force was killed or wounded in the explosion of a booby-trapped house in which it was holed up in the Shaboura camp in Rafah.

Al-Qassam added on its Telegram channel that immediately after the rescue force arrived, its members bombed the vicinity of the house that was bombed with mortar shells.

Later, Palestinian sources and media announced that 7 soldiers were killed and others were wounded in the Rafah operation carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades.