Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters attacked Israeli forces operating in neighborhoods to the south of Gaza City with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, and fired rockets at troops deployed on the Netzarim Corridor further to the south, war monitors report.

In southern Gaza’s Rafah city, Hamas fired a “Red Arrow” guided missile at an Israeli armoured vehicle on Monday, according to US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP).

A combined Hamas-PIJ sniper attack also targeted an Israeli soldier in eastern Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip and another joint Hamas-PIJ sniper team fired on an Israeli soldier in the Bani Suheila area of the city, according to the latest ISW-CTP battlefield report.