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The Israeli occupation army announced the withdrawal of the 271st Battalion of the Combat Engineering Unit after weeks of fighting in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and admitted the killing of one of its soldiers, while the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), broadcast scenes of its sniping of an Israeli officer west of Gaza City, and announced with its brigades Jerusalem, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement. An Israeli force killed and wounded someone who entered a house in Khan Yunis.
During the recent period, the occupation army gradually withdrew some of its forces, withdrawing the 36th Division, which includes the Golani Brigade and brigades of armor, artillery, infantry, and other forces.
The Fifth Brigade was also withdrawn from the Gaza Strip late last month, which operated in the northern region of the Gaza Strip on the beach axis, in addition to the withdrawal of the Fourth Reserve Brigade, known as Kiryati, from Khan Yunis after weeks of military operations in the north and east of the governorate.
The brigade also withdrew 55 reserve paratroopers who operated in the Khan Yunis area.
After months of operations in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army withdrew Battalion 7107, which belongs to the Nahal Brigade.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the occupation army announced the death of a soldier due to wounds he sustained in the Gaza battles. This was a day after announcing the killing of an officer with the rank of major, deputy commander of the 601st Battalion 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 564, including 234 since the start of the ground operation.
Battles and resistance strikes
In other field developments, the Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast scenes of what it said was the sniper operation of an Israeli officer during the battles in the Al-Jami'a area, west of Gaza City.
The Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades also announced that they had caused deaths and injuries among an Israeli special force consisting of 10 soldiers who clashed with it when it was holed up inside a house west of the city of Khan Yunis.
In Gaza City, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters were also able to snipe an Israeli soldier near the Al-Sinaa Junction, and targeted an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with a Tandom shell west of the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Al-Qassam Brigades added that they bombed with mortar shells the concentrations of the occupation forces penetrating into the Al-Katiba area, west of Gaza City.
The Al-Quds Brigades also broadcast images of missile salvos targeting Israeli military positions and concentrations on the axes of its advance in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Al Jazeera