The slain man was identified as Master Sgt. (res.) Abraham Azulay, 25, a heavy engineering vehicle operator in the Southern Command, from Yitzhar in Samaria.

Last week, the IDF announced the deaths of two additional soldiers in Gaza.

Secondary explosions identified following the strike indicated the presence of rockets loaded and ready to be fired at Israel.

IDF says Ismail Barhoum was killed in a Khan Younis targeted assassination as he operated from a hospital.

Three senior Hamas operatives were among the terrorists killed in the strike.

The names of the fallen soldiers are 19-year-old Sergeant Dolev Malka from Shlomi, 19-year-old Sergeant Afik Tery from Rehovot, and 20-year-old Sergeant Inon Yitzhak from Mitzpe Ramon.

The Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared, 'Two hundred terrorists have surrendered at Nasser Hospital; dozens have surrendered at the Amal Hospital.'

'We were in the middle of an attack on an important target...I entered the house and turned the table over, and suddenly I saw the small inscription. Crazy.'

The terrorist was hiding in an alley preparing to throw a grenade at an IDF paratrooper unit.

The IDF predicts that they may completely defeat Hamas as a fighting force in several weeks.

In the past few weeks, the IDF have launched multiple operations in Khan Younis and have captured the headquarters of Hamas.

Israeli forces are strengthening their operational control over Khan Yunis, Gaza’s second-largest city.

Israeli naval, aerial and ground forces continued to hammer Hamas targets along the Gaza coast.

IAF fighter jets destroyed rocket launching positions that were used the previous day to fire at Israeli territory.