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The Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - said that its members were able to ensnare an Israeli force in a complex ambush, after targeting a troop carrier with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell, and targeting a group of 7 soldiers in the same place with another shell, in the downtown area. In the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam confirmed that its forces clashed with heavy weapons with the rescue force that arrived to rescue the soldiers, and all its members were killed or wounded.
The Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast scenes of mortar shelling of Israeli forces that were penetrating the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza. They also announced the sniping of a soldier and the targeting of a tank in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades - the military arm of the Islamic Jihad movement - broadcast scenes of its fighters targeting a military vehicle and bombing Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Complex, west of Gaza City.
Occupation losses
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that 8 soldiers were injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, and it also announced that a soldier from the 77th Battalion was killed during the battles taking place in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Army Radio reported that a soldier died from wounds he sustained two days ago in the southern Gaza Strip, bringing the number of soldiers killed to 3 in the past 24 hours, and to 600 dead since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, including 264 among them. An officer and a soldier since the start of the ground operation on the 26th of the same month, and 90 killed since the beginning of this year, according to official figures.
Israeli Channel 12 reported that more than 6,800 officers and soldiers had been injured since the beginning of the war, including 4,716 soldiers from the reserve forces.
Source: Al Jazeera