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The Palestinian resistance factions are waging fierce battles with the Israeli occupation army in the vicinity of the industrial zone in Gaza City and in several areas of the city of Khan Yunis. The occupation admitted the killing of a deputy battalion commander and the wounding of a number of its soldiers in the past hours, and revealed the killing of 31 of its prisoners held by the resistance in the Strip. .

As the Israeli aggression on Gaza entered its fifth month, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that fierce battles were taking place between the resistance factions and the Israeli army around the industrial zone in Gaza City, where the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it had targeted two troop carriers with “Al-Yassin 105” missiles. In the passport area, it sniped an officer and a soldier in the university area, west of Gaza City.

Al-Qassam also indicated that it killed and wounded a group of occupation soldiers after targeting them inside a house with a TPG shell west of Khan Yunis, and destroyed a tank in the same area.

The Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast images of its fighters, in conjunction with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, targeting crowds of occupation forces with missiles on the fighting frontlines in Gaza City.

The Al-Qassam Brigades also broadcast scenes of what it said was an Israeli march that was captured during an intelligence mission in the city of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades said that its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with the Israeli army with machine guns and missiles in the center, west and south of Khan Yunis.

It added that its resistance members blew up an Israeli military vehicle with a "Thaqib" barrel bomb in the vicinity of Haidar roundabout. The Al-Quds Brigades indicated that its resistance fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Yunis, with an RPG shell.

Israeli acknowledgment

For its part, the Israeli army announced the killing of Major David Shakori, deputy commander of the 601st Battalion of the Iron League in the Combat Engineering Corps, during the ongoing battles in the northern Gaza Strip.

This brings the announced number of Israeli officers and soldiers killed to 563 since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, including 233 since the start of the ground operation.

The occupation army also announced that 3 of its soldiers were injured during the past 24 hours, noting that 429 officers and soldiers were seriously injured since the start of the war.

According to Israeli army statistics, the number of casualties among its ranks since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip reached 2,828 officers and soldiers, including 1,304 wounded since the start of the ground attack.

The occupation army indicated in a statement that its forces operating in Khan Yunis “were able to eliminate dozens of Palestinian militants through raids, sweeps, and ambushes with the participation of the Air Force and Navy.” It also arrested 80 people whom it described as those involved in the attack of last October 7. .

This comes as the Israeli army continues its military operations in Gaza City, and has also bombed residential squares north and south of Gaza as part of a plan to create a buffer zone near the security fence.

In a related development, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced on Tuesday that 31 prisoners detained in Gaza had died.

He added in a press conference, "We informed 31 families that their detained relatives had died, and thus we announce their deaths."

Israel says 136 of its prisoners are still being held in Gaza.

The Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza for 4 months, and the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Strip announced yesterday, Tuesday, that the death toll from the Israeli aggression had risen to 27,585 martyrs and 66,978 injured.

Source: Al Jazeera