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The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that its fighters targeted Israeli occupation vehicles and fought zero-distance clashes with its soldiers, while the Israeli army acknowledged that an officer and a soldier were killed and 26 others were wounded in the battles in the Gaza Strip within 24 hours.

The al-Qassam Brigades announced the targeting of two Israeli tanks and a military bulldozer, and that they had clashed from zero distance with a foot force south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

A short while earlier, the Brigades said that they had shelled with mortar shells a gathering of Israeli occupation vehicles and soldiers in Khan Yunis.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, said that its fighters targeted with mortar shells the position of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of the Faculty of Science and Technology, south of Khan Yunis.

The Qassam Brigades broadcast scenes of mortar shelling carried out with the Al-Quds Brigades on foot in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported hearing the sounds of machine gun clashes in Jabalya camp.

The Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters targeted an Israeli vehicle with a "Yassin 105" shell west of Tel Al-Hawa in Gaza City, and also clashed with an infantry force with machine guns and grenades, causing deaths and injuries.

The Qassam Brigades also targeted an Israeli troop carrier with a Shawaz bomb and a Al-Yassin 105 shell north of Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.

The Qassam Brigades published footage of an Israeli drone seized by its fighters in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Rocket bursts

Meanwhile, the al-Qassam Brigades announced the shelling of Netivot in the western Negev with a rocket barrage. Al-Jazeera's correspondent reported that a large number of rockets fired from Gaza landed in the city of Netivot in the western Negev, and in Giv'ulim and Sdot Negev in the last batch towards the western Negev.

He also reported that a building was directly hit in Netivot and that the building and cars were severely damaged. Sirens sounded in all towns around Gaza and the western Negev.

The municipality of Netivot said about 50 rockets were fired towards the city. Israeli sources said the rockets were launched from the northern Gaza Strip, targeting about 19 towns in the Gaza envelope and the western Negev. The Israeli army has been intensively shelling the sites from which rockets were fired towards the western Negev.

Occupation losses

In contrast, the Israeli army announced that an officer and a soldier were killed and 26 soldiers wounded in the battles in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.

The Israeli army had earlier announced that a major officer had been killed and two soldiers seriously wounded in battles in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.

This brings the recognized Israeli death toll to 523 since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 193, including 26 soldiers who have been killed since the ground operation began on October <>.

The occupation army also announced the injury of 26 soldiers in the battles of the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of soldiers and officers wounded since the seventh of last October to 2567, and since the beginning of the ground operation to 1135.

The occupation indicated that 389 soldiers were seriously wounded, 675 moderately wounded, and 1503 lightly wounded.

According to army data on its website, 417 soldiers and officers are still receiving treatment in hospitals, including 42 in serious condition, 254 moderate, and 121 in minor condition.

Since October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which has left 24,285 martyrs and 61,154 injured, and caused the displacement of more than 85% (about 1.9 million people) of the Strip's population, according to the Palestinian authorities and the United Nations.

Source : Al Jazeera