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Clashes continued between resistance factions and occupation forces today, Wednesday, in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, which has been besieged by the occupation for 10 days, while the Israeli army announced that 22 soldiers were injured in Gaza during the past 24 hours.

The Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - announced that its fighters were able to snipe an Israeli soldier in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - said that it bombed gatherings of occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Complex with 60 mm mortar shells.

The Al-Quds Brigades published scenes of the clashes and targeting of the Israeli military vehicle in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Complex.

It added that it bombed, with Badr 1 missiles, a gathering of Israeli army vehicles and a command headquarters southeast of the Kissufim settlement in the Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, Israeli Army Radio confirmed the detection of a rocket fired from Gaza and landing in an uninhabited area near Kissufim.

The Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed yesterday, Tuesday, that they had targeted an Israeli vehicle with a “Shawaz” device in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Complex.

The day before yesterday, Monday, Al-Qassam announced the bombing of Ashdod, southern Israel, for the first time in two months, with a missile salvo in response to the targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Occupation injuries

The occupation army also acknowledged that 22 soldiers were injured in the Gaza Strip battles during the past 24 hours, without adding information about the nature of the battles that resulted in their injuries.

Thus, the number of Israeli army casualties since the beginning of the war on the 7th of last October rose to 3,152, of whom 1,520 were wounded since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip on the 27th of the same month.

The occupation army also said that 592 soldiers were injured in the Gaza Strip as a result of what it described as “incidents” not related to the fighting.

While the number of deaths of the occupation army since the beginning of the war is 596, of whom 252 were killed during the ground operation.

Source: Al Jazeera