Hamas-led Al-Qassam Brigade claimed that its fighters destroyed three more tanks and two vehicles of Damshan.

These deadly attacks on Israeli forces were carried out in Khan Younis. An Israeli drone was also shot down in the Al-Amal neighborhood.

The Israeli army has announced the death of four more soldiers during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip last night, including a squad commander from an elite infantry unit.

The military wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, earlier claimed nine Israeli soldiers were killed in the az-Zanna district in eastern Khan Younis and five in the al-Amal neighbourhood.

The deaths bring the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza since October 7 to 604, including 268 killed since the start of ground operations on October 26.

The Israeli military published the names on Sunday of four soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip, bringing to 604 its losses in ground fighting there as the war against Hamas reached the half-year mark.

The four commandos died on Saturday in southern Gaza, the military said in a statement that followed weeks of relatively low Israeli casualties. Hamas had claimed an ambush against Israeli forces in the southern town of Khan Younis on Saturday.