Al-Qassam confirmed that it targeted a force of 4 soldiers, all of whom were killed (European Archives)

The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced on Friday the killing of Israeli army soldiers, while the occupation continued to bomb residential neighborhoods and people waiting for aid, which led to more martyrs and wounded.

The Al-Qassam Brigades said that it fired an anti-fortified TPG shell "at a Zionist force of 4 soldiers" who were transporting explosive devices to a house in Madinat Al-Zahra in the central Gaza Strip.

Al-Qassam said in a statement: “Our mujahideen confirmed the killing of all members of the Zionist force.” Al-Qassam also announced that it had targeted 5 Merkava tanks with “Al-Yassin 105” shells in central Gaza.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that it bombed gatherings of occupation soldiers east of the central region of the Strip with a barrage of mortar shells.

The Palestinian resistance is still engaged in fierce clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in central and northern Gaza and in the Khan Yunis Governorate in the south.

5 massacres

On the other hand, the occupation warplanes continued to bomb those waiting for aid, and their last operations were at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, which led to the death of a citizen and the injury of others.

Yesterday evening, Thursday, more than 100 Palestinians were martyred and injured when the occupation launched air and artillery bombardments on citizens who were waiting for aid to arrive in the same roundabout.

The government media office in Gaza explained on Friday that the occupation committed five massacres in two days against people waiting for aid, leaving 56 martyrs and 300 wounded.

In the central Gaza Strip, an Al Jazeera correspondent said that an Israeli bombing targeted a house west of the town of Al-Zawaida, leaving two martyrs and a number of wounded.

The correspondent also reported that one martyr and a number of wounded were killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the village of Al-Masdar in the central Gaza Strip.

He added that Israeli aircraft bombed the new camp north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Intense bombardment

In the northern Gaza Strip, 3 Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Intelligence area, northwest of Gaza City.

The occupation aircraft heavily bombed the Beach Camp and the western neighborhoods of Gaza City, and Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that a violent bombardment targeted the Sheikh Ajlin area, west of Gaza City.

In the south, Al Jazeera's correspondent said that the occupation army launched raids on the western and southern areas of Gaza City, and reported that the bodies of 4 martyrs were recovered from Hamad Town, west of Khan Yunis.

Since last October 7, Israel has continued its aggression against Gaza, which has so far led to the martyrdom of more than 31,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure and service facilities and the displacement and starvation of the population.

Source: Al Jazeera