This article was originally published by Maan News and is republished with permission.

Three Palestinians, including a forty-four-year-old disabled man, and an Israeli soldier were killed when Israeli forces invaded the Gaza Strip in several places Monday morning. 11 other Palestinians were injured.

Israeli forces killed one Palestinian fighter, twenty-two-year old Ahmad Abu Tahun, affiliated with Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, near Sufa border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday morning.

Israeli sources said two soldiers from the Golani Brigade were injured in a battle with Palestinian fighters south of Sufa crossing. The soldiers were evacuated to Soroka hospital in Beersheba.

Ma'an later learned that one injured soldier died of his wounds.

Beit Hanoun under fire

The Al-Qassam Brigades also said that undercover Israeli forces shot a seventeen-year-old student named Ahmad Al-Za'anin in the chest. He was taken to Beit Hanoun Hospital for treatment.

Israeli forces occupied the campus of the Agricultural College in Beit Hanoun before clashing with Palestinian activists.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a disabled Palestinian man named Faird Abu Awda. Officials at Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza City said the soldiers shot him twice in the head inside his Beit Hanoun home.

Twenty-three-year-old Hamas fighter Muhammad Hamad was killed when and Israeli drone fired on a group of fighters in Beit Hanoun

Eyewitnesses said the Israeli soldiers withdrew from the area after conducting house-to-house raids. Seven other Palestinians were injured in the fighting there.

Other fighting

Earlier, two Al-Qassam Brigades fighters were injured while attempting to block an advancing Israeli unit in a village near the city of Khan Younis. The Al-Qassam Brigades said they lobbed an explosive device and seven mortar shells at the invading forces.

Israeli forces also invaded the city of Dier Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, seizing five Palestinians over 24 hours. Two Palestinians were injured in the attack, including a woman named Abu Mghesib. The invading forces also bulldozed farms and agricultural land.

Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance groups struck Israeli targets in response to Israel's renewed incursions.

The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades said they launched a homemade projectile at the Israeli border town of Sderot, near the Gaza Strip.

The An-Nasser Brigades also claimed to have fired two mortar shells at the Israeli military base at Kisufim.

The military wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades, claimed to have launched a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli military jeep near the town of Al-Qarara in the Gaza Strip.