Gaza

At 9:00 PM, rocket sirens sounded in the border settlements of Sa'ad and Nahal Oz.

The IDF reports a special forces soldier was seriously wounded in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip.

Minister Gadi Eisenkot (Machane Mamlachti) stated that the operation in Rafah must continue.

In central Gaza, troops killed several more operatives in clashes and with tank shelling.

Sources in Gaza, along with Al Jazeera, report that the IDF struck a displaced persons' tent camp in northwest Rafah.

Senior Sergeant Sahar Sudaei, 20, from Tel Aviv, a fighter in the Rotem Battalion of the Givati Brigade, was killed in a battle in northern Gaza.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in a parking lot next to a school in Kibbutz Sa'ad.