The IDF says the number of confirmed

The IDF says the number of confirmed members of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups captured by troops at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital rises to 500, as the raid at the medical center continues.

In the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF says troops killed some 20 terrorist during an ongoing and new offensive against Hamas in Khan Younis's Al-Amal neighborhood, led by the 98th Division.

The military says that dozens of suspects were also questioned by field interrogators of the Shin Bet security agency and the Military Intelligence Directorate's Unit 504, as the IDF enabled hundreds of Palestinian civilians to evacuate the Al-Amal area.

In central Gaza, the IDF says the Nahal Brigade killed several terrorist , including one who was targeted in an airstrike after being spotted entering and exiting a tunnel.

Over the past day, Israeli Air Force fighter jets targeted some 50 sites across the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF. Attack helicopters and drones struck several more targets and killed some 10 terrorist, the IDF adds.