RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Shots rang out in the Yabna camp in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city, as troops of the Givati Infantry Brigade closed in on an RPG-wielding Hamas operative who had been spotted just a few hundred meters from Col. Liron Betito’s makeshift command center.

Betito, who commands Givati, was giving Israeli reporters a tour of Yabna — known in the Israel Defense Forces as NPK — on Tuesday, highlighting the brigade’s successes and challenges in this now deserted neighborhood of Rafah.