Members of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Al Jazeera - Archive)

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced the targeting of 22 Israeli soldiers in 3 separate ambushes in less than 24 hours. In return, the Israeli occupation army acknowledged the killing of two officers, including a battalion commander and a soldier, and the wounding of 18 others in battles in the Gaza Strip.

This comes at a time when the Palestinian resistance is engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces in the eastern and western areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces fired heavy fire in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, and also targeted with smoke bombs the buildings of UNRWA schools housing displaced persons in the vicinity of the complex.

Qassam ambushes

For its part, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters killed 10 Israeli soldiers from point zero in the Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of the city of Khan Yunis.

She added that she was able to detonate an anti-personnel device against an Israeli force of 5 soldiers barricaded inside a house in Abasan al-Kabira, leaving its members dead and wounded.

The Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that they clashed with an Israeli force of 7 soldiers from a distance of zero east of Khan Yunis, leaving them dead and wounded.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that its fighters set up an ambush in the Ma'an area, southeast of Khan Yunis, killing and wounding members of an Israeli force. It stated that its fighters surprised the force's members with machine guns, anti-personnel shells, fortifications, and explosive devices, causing deaths and injuries among their ranks.

The Al-Quds Brigades added that they bombed with mortar shells a command and control site of the occupation army in the Al-Taqadum axis in the center of Khan Yunis.

It also broadcast scenes that it said were of its resistance targeting occupation soldiers and vehicles west of Gaza City.

Transporting an Israeli soldier wounded in a battle in the Gaza Strip (Anadolu Agency)

Occupation losses

On the other hand, the Israeli army announced the killing of three soldiers, the commander of the 630th reserve battalion, a company deputy from the same battalion, and a soldier in it, during the bombing of a booby-trapped building in the southern Gaza Strip last night, and a number of soldiers were injured.

The occupation army confirmed that 18 soldiers were injured in the battles taking place in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

Israeli media sources confirmed that the army was subjected to an ambush, which they described as large and precise, carried out by the Palestinian resistance in Khan Yunis, which claimed the lives of more than 11 soldiers.

The sources said, "The security event took place southeast of Khan Yunis in the form of an elaborate ambush, and it took hours to transport the dead and wounded."

Since the beginning of the war on Gaza, the Israeli army has acknowledged the killing of 569 of its members, in addition to the injury of 2,864, including 344 soldiers receiving treatment in hospitals, the condition of 30 of whom is described as serious.

Source: Al Jazeera