Staff Sergeant Ido Shamik, 20, from the central Israeli city of Ganei Tikva, was killed by gunfire Tuesday morning in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun. The Israel Defense Forces said that the incident is under investigation.

A day earlier, two Israeli army officers in the Nahal Brigade were killed by anti-tank missile fire in Beit Hanoun. The two officers were named as Capt. Eitan Israel Skiknazi, 24, from the Eli settlement in the West Bank, who served as a deputy unit commander, and Maj. Dvir Zion Revah, 28, from Jerusalem, who served as a unit commander.