The Israeli army announced that it had killed "the terrorist Yussef Rafik Ahmed Shabat, head of the Hamas Internal Investigations Department in Beit Hanun", in the north of the Strip. The military spokesperson made this known according to which "Shabat served as a security officer in Hamas military intelligence in the Beit Hanun Battalion". "The elimination of him - he added - significantly damages the investigation department of the terrorist organization." The same source added that in a raid "a vehicle in which there were ten terrorists" was hit.
The Israeli army also announced that it "killed two Hezbollah terrorists in the Kfarkela area" in southern Lebanon.