The Palestinian resistance announced on Thursday evening that Israeli army soldiers and vehicles were being targeted in the south and north of the Gaza Strip, while the number of soldiers killed in the ranks of the occupation forces rose to 6 during the last 24 hours after it was announced that an officer with the rank of reserve major was killed in an ammunition explosion in the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that it lured an Israeli engineering force and detonated an explosive device, leaving it dead and wounded east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades also said that they bombed a control and surveillance site east of the city of Jabalia with mortar shells. It added that its fighters, alongside the Al-Quds Brigades, clashed with a special Israeli force in the Jabalia camp, killing and wounding its members. The brigades also targeted four military bulldozers and a tank with Al-Yassin shells east of the camp. It confirmed that another tank was blown up east of Jabalia with a stun device from scratch.
Also in the camp, the Phalange announced that an Israeli troop carrier had been destroyed by a Yassin missile, leaving its crew dead and wounded. While Al-Qassam fighters attacked the rear lines of the forces penetrating from the eastern side, and blew up two bulldozers.
In the south, specifically in Rafah, Al-Qassam announced the targeting of a Merkava tank and a D-9 bulldozer east of the city. In the Ard al-Shawi area, east of the city, Al-Qassam fighters were able to snipe an Israeli soldier with a Ghoul rifle.
The Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast scenes that they said were of the shelling of crowds of occupation forces and their vehicles penetrating east of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip with mortar shells.
The Al-Qassam Brigades published scenes of its fighters targeting an Israeli Merkava tank. The Al-Qassam Brigades also broadcast scenes that they said were of targeting enemy forces on the front lines east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, with mortar shells.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that it targeted a Merkava tank with an anti-armor shell near Saad Mosque in the Al-Qasaib neighborhood in the city of Jabalia. It also broadcast scenes of its fighters targeting Israeli military crowds and vehicles penetrating the Jabalia camp.
The Al-Quds Brigades also broadcast scenes they said were targeting an Israeli D-Nine bulldozer, and also broadcast scenes targeting an Israeli bulldozer during the battles in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza.
Occupation army data
On the other hand, the Israeli army said that its forces were continuing their operations in Jabalia, north of Gaza, and that they had eliminated more than 150 militants.
The army statement added that it destroyed several missile launchers, and that dozens of them were found, some of which were long-range. The army indicated that the forces of the 162nd Division continued their fighting east of Rafah, and attacked military targets belonging to Hamas, with support from the Air Force.
The Israeli army also announced the killing of an officer with the rank of reserve major in an ammunition explosion in the Ghalaf area, bringing the number of soldiers killed during the last twenty-four hours to six after previously announcing the killing of five soldiers among them, and the injury of sixteen others, including three whose injuries were described as serious in the bombing of a building in which they were holed up. In the Jabalia area, north of the Gaza Strip, last Wednesday night.
This brings the number of soldiers killed during the war on Gaza to 627 soldiers and officers, including 289 killed since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip on October 27 last year.
For his part, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari revealed that their investigations into the killing of a number of soldiers in Jabalia showed that an Israeli tank mistakenly fired at a building in which a number of soldiers were holed up, and he spoke about the presence of what he called great operational pressure in the Jabalia area.
The Israeli army also announced on Thursday evening that two Thai detainees who were previously believed to be alive in Gaza were killed in the attack of last October 7, and that their bodies are being held in the Palestinian Strip.
Continuous bombing
Intense Israeli bombardment continues in various parts of the Gaza Strip, as Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation launched raids on various areas of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, while Israeli artillery continues to bombard areas east and center of the city.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that two Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli drone bombardment near Municipal Park in central Gaza City.
The correspondent reported renewed Israeli raids on the Al-Hoja Street area in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza Strip. The occupation launched more than ten raids on the eastern areas of Jabalia camp. The occupation artillery also fired shells and smoke bombs at the camp.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that the occupation forces destroyed the Jabalia refugee camp’s central market. He added that the bombing led to the burning of a number of houses. Jabalia camp is witnessing violent Israeli raids and artillery shelling
The reporter reported that a fire broke out in the “Block Two” area of Jabalia Camp as a result of the continuous raids by the occupation forces on the camp in the northern Gaza Strip, noting that there were casualties as a result of an Israeli drone bombing that targeted a house in front of the gate of the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in the center of Rafah.
The director of the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah, Dr. Suhaib Al-Hams, said that the Israeli bombing that targeted a house in front of the hospital gate led to the injury of five medical staff, in addition to cutting off water and the Internet from the hospital. Dr. Al-Hams called on international and human rights institutions to provide protection for the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
In the south, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent said that five people were martyred when occupation aircraft targeted a house for the Kaware family, east of the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Yunis.
In Rafah, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Al-Husaynat area, east of the city.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the Israeli occupation committed 4 massacres in the last 24 hours, leaving 39 martyrs and 64 wounded.
Thus, the number of war victims since the seventh of last October rose to 35,272 martyrs and 79,205 wounded.