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Israeli sources confirmed the killing and wounding of dozens of officers and soldiers in the battles of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The occupation media described the 108th day as the most difficult days of fighting since the ground war.
Israeli sources confirmed the bombing of two buildings and the collapse of a third with Israeli military forces inside it, leaving 22 dead and wounded.
Before that, the Israeli army announced the killing of 3 officers from the Paratroopers Brigade, including a deputy battalion commander and a company commander, in the battles in the area, and 3 others were seriously injured, bringing the number of officers and soldiers killed to 535 since the start of the war on Gaza.
The Israeli army also announced the evacuation of 15 soldiers and officers who sustained various injuries in the Khan Yunis battles.
Israeli reports stated that yesterday, Monday, was the most difficult day of fighting in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war.
The Israeli army announced the start of an attack to besiege the Khan Yunis camp, in which 4 battalions from the Givati Brigade, the commandos, the paratroopers, and the 7th Battalion participated. It claimed that its forces raided dozens of buildings and headquarters of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and took control of them.
Pictures showed the flight of an Israeli army rescue plane as it carried out evacuations of wounded soldiers, during the ongoing clashes with the Palestinian resistance in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported violent clashes between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation army in the vicinity of the Austrian Quarter cemetery, south of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Resistance operations
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that it had targeted a D-9 bulldozer with a Tandom shell west of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Brigades also said that Israeli aircraft bombed a tank belonging to it and crushed it with its contents after it was targeted by Al-Qassam while it was confronting a rescue force that tried to withdraw it.
West of the city, Al-Qassam fighters targeted members of an Israeli force with an anti-personnel missile, leaving them dead and wounded.
The Phalange also targeted a Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 missile.
Al-Qassam also announced that it had targeted a building in which an Israeli force was holed up, with a tandem shell that left one dead and wounded west of Gaza, in addition to the sniper attack on a soldier southwest of the city.
The Brigades said that they targeted an Israeli foot force with an anti-personnel missile west of the city of Khan Yunis, killing and wounding its members.
Al-Qassam broadcast images showing an Israeli spy drone, and said it had seized the plane in an intelligence operation in the northern Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades announced that a military tank and bulldozer were targeted with rocket-propelled grenades west of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades had said - earlier - that its resistance fighters were waging fierce battles with the occupation forces in the areas of the incursion into Khan Yunis. It also published scenes that it said were of the artillery attack on “enemy” concentrations, soldiers, and vehicles in the same governorate, which it obtained based on important information. From one of the controlled aircraft.
The Al-Quds Brigades also broadcast scenes of a sniper attack on two Israeli soldiers east of the Bureij camp.
On the other hand, Al-Saraya said that its fighters targeted with a “Badr 1” missile a gathering of “Zionist enemy” soldiers east of Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, and they also bombed with mortar shells a site where “enemy” soldiers were stationed east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Al-Quds Brigades statement indicated that an Israeli military vehicle was targeted with an RPG shell in the center of the city of Khan Yunis.
The Battle of Khan Yunis is approaching its third month without the Israeli army being able to tighten its control over the governorate, which the occupation leaders see as the most important military center for the resistance.
Source: Al Jazeera