Abu Ubaida confirms the killing of 15 Israeli soldiers during the past days (social networking sites)
Abu Ubaida, the official spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced the destruction of 43 military vehicles and the killing of 15 Israeli soldiers from scratch.
He said in a statement on Telegram that Al-Qassam was able to snipe an Israeli officer and soldier, kill and wound dozens of others, and blow up a tunnel in a number of occupation soldiers.
Abu Ubaida added that Al-Qassam fighters seized 4 drones and destroyed military crowds with mortar shells on all fronts of the fighting. Our mujahideen also directed an intense missile barrage towards Tel Aviv and its environs.
Al-Qassam said - today, Sunday - that it targeted 3 Israeli Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells in the Al-Sinaa area, southwest of Gaza City.
It added that it targeted a group of occupation soldiers barricaded inside a house southwest of the city, killing and wounding them. It also confirmed that 3 other tanks and a military bulldozer were targeted with Al-Yassin 105 shells in the Al-Sabra neighborhood.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - announced that its fighters had trapped an Israeli force in a tight ambush in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two soldiers and wounding others.
It also targeted, earlier, an occupation forces bulldozer in the Al-Amal neighborhood, and confirmed that its members clashed with the occupation forces, causing deaths and injuries among its ranks. The Al-Quds Brigades broadcast pictures of an Israeli drone, which it said it shot down while it was carrying out intelligence missions southwest of Khan Yunis.
Occupation losses
On the other hand, the Israeli army said that 5 soldiers were injured in battles in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, which brings the number of Israeli officers and soldiers who were injured since the beginning of the war to 2,770.
The Israeli army announced that one of its soldiers from the engineering battalion was killed during last night's battles in the southern Gaza Strip.
This brings the number of Israeli army deaths announced to 562 since the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the start of the war on Gaza on October 7th.
The Israeli army had stated that its operational transport unit had carried out more than 1,500 operations to evacuate wounded soldiers in the battles in the Gaza Strip, while Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that since the beginning of the war, the Israeli army had been dealing with thousands of requests from soldiers seeking psychological assistance.
The Israeli Walla website also revealed earlier that about 4,000 soldiers have been admitted to having disabilities since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip.
It is noteworthy that Israel is concealing its real losses in the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip, amid leaks from Israeli hospitals indicating that they are receiving larger numbers of injured people than announced.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies