The IDF says troops of the Givati Brigade spotted a Hamas operative attempting to

The IDF says troops of the Givati Brigade spotted a Hamas operative attempting to place an explosive device on an Israeli tank in southern Gaza's Khan Younis.

The troops directed an aircraft to strike the operative, along with three others who were in the area, according to the IDF.

The IDF says Givati soldiers also found weapons and a safe with hundreds of thousands of shekels in the home of a Hamas Nukhba force operative.

Also in Khan Younis, the IDF says troops of the Kfir Brigade directed an airstrike on a weapons manufacturing plant belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Meanwhile in northern Gaza, the IDF says troops of the Nahal Brigade identified a Hamas cell operating drones in the area or Gaza City's Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods, in order to observe Israeli forces.

The IDF says the cell was eliminated in a drone strike.