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The Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip announced that Israeli forces were targeting military operations in Khan Yunis and the Zaytoun neighborhood, while the occupation army announced the killing of an officer and attacking resistance infrastructure in Jabalia and Beit Hanoun.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that a number of its members blew up a house that was previously booby-trapped by an Israeli foot force, killing and wounding its members in the Bani Suhaila area, east of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Al-Qassam added that its members clashed with another force inside a tunnel in Bani Suhaila and wounded a number of the force’s soldiers, in addition to killing a soldier from the Engineering Corps with a gunshot to the head.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement - broadcast scenes of mortar shells that struck Israeli army positions in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, the largest neighborhood in Gaza City.

As the intense battles continued in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army announced the killing of a major in the Special Forces during the battles in the Gaza Strip.

Nahal Brigade

Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said that the Israeli soldiers “made sacrifices,” stressing that it was impossible for the army to continue its operations without those “sacrifices.”

The Israeli army said that Nahal Brigade soldiers are continuing their combat operations in the central Gaza Strip.

They were able to eliminate 13 Palestinian militants using drones, fighter jets, and tank fire.

In its statement, the army confirmed that the soldiers of the Commando Brigade continued their face-to-face fighting with Palestinian resistance fighters in the Hamad neighborhood.

The army also announced that two Hamas fighters had surrendered themselves to its forces, according to the statement.

In Khan Yunis, the army said that its soldiers killed 17 Palestinian militants in the past 24 hours.

Warplanes also attacked infrastructure in the Jabalia and Beit Hanoun areas in the northern Gaza Strip.

The statement indicated that soldiers from the "Agoz" unit killed the Palestinian who killed reserve major Amisher Ben David, in battles in the southern Gaza Strip last Friday, and he is a relative of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Source: Al Jazeera