Two senior Israeli officers have been killed by roadside explosives planted by Palestinian resistance groups in central Gaza, the Israeli army announced, Anadolu reports.

One of them, logistics officer Maj Yotam Itzhak Peled, 34, of “the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion … was killed by roadside bombs planted by Hamas in the Netzarim Corridor area,” it said in a statement.

Releasing a separate statement, it said the second officer was Sgt. Maj. Mordechai Yosef Ben Shoam. Also 34, he was a “truck driver with the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion … was part of a convoy to supply troops in Gaza City’s southern Zeitoun neighborhood with equipment,” it added.

“During the drive in the Netzarim Corridor, a roadside bomb exploded, killing Ben Shoam and Maj. (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled,” revealed the Israeli army.