The military says its forces completed an operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, and have moved to the areas in the west of the Beit Hanoon neighbourhood, Al Jazeera reports.

A military statement said troops killed many fighters and destroyed their infrastructure above and below ground during the offensive in Beit Lahiya.

The operation around Beit Hanoon has been launched as a result of intelligence information suggesting fighter activity in the neighbourhood, the statement claimed. Fighter jets and artillery units struck the area before soldiers moved in, it added.