The Israel Defense Forces denied a Hamas claim that IDF soldiers were abducted in Gaza after a spokesman for Hamas’s military wing who uses the name Abu Obaida said in a statement that his fighters had ambushed Israeli troops in Jabalya in northern Gaza.
Abu Obaida said the fighters lured Israeli troops into a tunnel, blew it up and “killed, wounded and captured” some of the soldiers. Abu Obaida did not say how many troops had been captured.