Gaza: Israeli media reported on Friday that five Israeli soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an ambush that caused a building to collapse on them in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

According to media reports, the incident reportedly involved a 12-member force from an elite Israeli unit that was targeted in a booby-trapped structure.

According to media reports, several Israeli soldiers remain trapped beneath the rubble.

Meanwhile, at least 52 Palestinians have been martyred since dawn on Thursday in ongoing Israeli shelling across multiple areas of the Gaza Strip.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, claimed responsibility for two operations in Khan Yunis and a complex ambush east of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

According to their statement, the ambush in Jabaliya occurred last Sunday in the eastern line near the Mabhouh site, involving explosive devices, shells, and close-range clashes using machine guns.