Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Tuesday the arrest of a prominent Hamas operative during a security operation in Gaza, noting that the operation resulted in the deaths of a number of soldiers. Channel 12 reported that the detainee in Gaza is the head of Hamas's General Security Service. For its part, the Israeli army announced that it had attacked a number of targets in the Gaza Strip a short while ago, with the aim of removing threats facing its forces, confirming that there were no casualties in its ranks.