IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip waved the Israeli flag on one of the buildings during the operation.
The flag was raised by soldiers of the 52nd Battalion from the 401st Brigade. "We will not forget, we will not forgive and we will not stop until victory," said the soldier who recorded his friends raising the flag.
Pro-Israel activist Yosef Haddad commented: "The Israeli flag is flying in Gaza. They wanted to break us - we will break them."
Over the last day, IDF warplanes attacked over 450 Hamas military targets throughout the Gaza Strip.
Among the targets attacked were military headquarters, observation posts, anti-tank firing positions of the terrorist organization.
As part of the expansion of the ground forces' activity, the IDF attacked terrorist squads that tried to attack the forces and squads that planned to fire anti-tank weapons and also directed aircraft at targets from the ground.
During the night, an IDF officer was seriously injured as a result of a mortar strike from the northern Gaza Strip. In addition, an IDF soldier was moderately injured during an encounter with terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip. The officer and the soldier were evacuated for medical treatment at a hospital.