The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday announced the deaths of three soldiers in fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the Israeli death toll in the ongoing ground operation in the Strip to 164.

Jackman studied at a yeshiva in the southern town of Yeruham and is the eighth student of that institution to have been killed since the war started.

The IDF, meanwhile, released an update on some of the close-quarters combat that troops experienced during the morning.

In the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, soldiers on the ground identified terrorists moving between buildings from where fire had been directed at Israeli forces. The soldiers called in an airstrike, which led to secondary explosions, indicating that the area had been booby-trapped, the IDF said.

In another incident, soldiers spotted two terrorists getting into a car that then drove to a building known to the IDF as a weapons storage site. Forces called in airstrikes on the car and a plane bombed the weapons storage site.

Over the past 24 hours, 200 targets were hit by strikes in Gaza, the IDF said.

Terrorists, meanwhile, resumed their attacks on Israeli territory. After a lull of some 16 hours, rocket sirens sound in Nahal Oz near the Gaza border. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

The towns close to the border with the enclave have largely been evacuated of civilians since October 7, when Hamas carried out a devastating attack on Israel that killed over 1,200 people, sparking the war. Thousands of terrorists who burst through the border from Gaza in southern Israel also abducted at least 240 people to Gaza as hostages.

Israel responded with a military campaign aimed at destroying Hamas, toppling it from power in Gaza and releasing the hostages.

A UN human rights official accused Israel of working to push Gazans out of the Strip entirely as it expands its ground operation aimed at toppling Hamas.

Paula Gaviria Betancur, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, issued a statement claiming the IDF is attempting to deport Palestinians from Gaza “en masse.”

“As evacuation orders and military operations continue to expand and civilians are subjected to relentless attacks on a daily basis, the only logical conclusion is that Israel’s military operation in Gaza aims to deport the majority of the civilian population en masse,” Gaviria Betancur wrote.

Israel has denied reports that it sought to push Gazans into Egypt for the duration of the war, and has vowed it is not seeking any permanent population displacement.