Israeli troops invading the Gaza Strip in an undated photograph   (Photo by AFP)

Tel Aviv, October 11 (RHC)-- At least three Israeli military majors have been killed during clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in northern Gaza, as the fighters are attempting to stop ground assaults by the Israeli troops.  The Israeli military announced in a statement on Thursday that the three fatalities were all reserve officers from Logistical Support Unit 5460, which is part of the Israeli 460th Armored “Bnei Or” brigade.

According to the Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper, the three were killed in an explosive device blast in the Jabalia neighborhood of northern Gaza.

According to figures released by the Israeli military, 734 soldiers have so far been killed and 4,700 others injured since the start of the Gaza war last October.

The figures come as Israel is known for imposing strict censorship regarding its military losses, and over the past year, it has faced widespread accusations of underreporting casualties in both Gaza and Lebanon.

At least 28 displaced people, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza, while hospitals in the north are ordered to evacuate, amid a major Israeli offensive that puts patients
Meanwhile, two Palestinians lost their lives and many others sustained injuries after an Israeli airstrike targeted a house at Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

An Israeli drone struck a group of Palestinians in the Maghazi refugee camp overnight, killing two people.

Six people were wounded when Israeli forces attacked another house in Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

Residential buildings in Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City were also destroyed, and huge blasts were heard in the eastern areas of Deir al-Balah.