The Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that 38 soldiers were killed in the northern Gaza Strip since the beginning of the last military operation in Jabalia on October 5, while the Palestinian resistance confirms that the occupation forces' losses are much greater.

The Israeli occupation army announced the killing of 3 soldiers in battles north of the Gaza Strip. Channel 13 Israel explained that the three soldiers were killed by the detonation of an explosive device in Beit Hanoun, north of the Strip.

The Israeli Army Radio said that in addition to the three soldiers who were killed in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, another soldier was moderately injured as a result of the detonation of an explosive device.

The occupation army explained that the evacuation of the dead soldiers was complicated by the detonation of a second explosive device in a military force that arrived to rescue the soldiers.