Palestinian fighters used mortar shells on Friday to target Israeli paratroopers operating along the Netzarim Corridor — an Israeli-built road that cuts Gaza’s north and south and allows Israel’s troops to deploy rapidly and control the movement of people in the territory, Al Jazeera reports.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), two US-based defence think tanks, also said Palestinian fighters fired a “thermobaric rocket” that targeted Israeli soldiers located in a house east of Deir el-Balah on Friday, and mortars were fired at Israeli troops operating in the east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Palestinian fighters also carried out two “indirect fire attacks” on Israel from Gaza on the same day, according to the latest ISW/CTP joint report.