The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Wednesday that it was able, in cooperation with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, to ensnare an Israeli force of 15 soldiers in an ambush in the central Gaza Strip, killing and wounding them, while the Israeli occupation army announced that 10 were killed. Officers and soldiers in the battles that Gaza witnessed during the past 24 hours.
Al-Qassam explained that the ambush included clashes from zero range, which left the occupation soldiers “between dead and wounded,” noting that the Al-Qassam artillery and the Al-Quds Brigades then targeted the area with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
Al-Qassam also announced that it had targeted 7 Israeli Merkava tanks and two troop carriers in the Ma’an area in the city of Khan Yunis with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, noting that its fighters had completely destroyed a troop carrier east of the city of Khan Yunis with a “B-29” shell.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades announced the bombing of the military crowds of the occupation forces with mortar shells in the Al-Taqaddum axis, east of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli army announced the killing of 10 officers and soldiers – including the commanders of two battalions – and the wounding of 21 of its soldiers in the battles that Gaza witnessed during the past 24 hours, noting that the Golani Brigade is still waging a “fierce fight” in the Shuja’iya neighborhood, saying that the current stage of its operation is… An advanced stage in what he called the effort to cleanse the neighborhood of Hamas and strip it of its capabilities.
The occupation army added that its soldiers were confronting Hamas fighters from inside buildings and from tunnels, explaining that Golani Brigade soldiers clashed with Palestinian militants who threw explosive devices at them, killing and wounding Israeli soldiers.
Israeli War Council member Benny Gantz also said that the “second war of survival” that the occupation army is waging in Gaza is inflicting a heavy, painful and difficult price on Israel.
Martyrs and wounded
This comes at a time when several areas of fierce clashes are witnessing between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces in the Shuja’iya and Jabalia camps and the Al-Tawam area in the north to Khan Yunis in the south, in conjunction with continuous Israeli bombing on several areas in the Gaza Strip, leaving martyrs and wounded.
A medical source reported to Manhattan Tribune that more than 40 martyrs had arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis during the past 24 hours, saying that among the martyrs were at least 10 children as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted residential neighborhoods in the city.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza also announced today, Wednesday, the death of 196 and the injury of 499 as a result of the occupation army’s bombing of several areas in the Strip, stressing that the death toll of the Israeli aggression on Gaza had risen to 18,608 martyrs and 50,594 injured.
