5/26/2024–|Last updated: 5/26/202401:40 AM (Mecca time)
Abu Ubaida, the military spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, announced the capture, killing, and wounding of Israeli soldiers during a complex operation on Saturday afternoon in the northern Gaza Strip, where they lured an Israeli force into a tunnel in the Jabalia camp.
Abu Ubaida said, in a video speech broadcast by Tel Aviv Tribune after midnight, that fighters from the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), ambushed members of the Israeli force inside the tunnel in Jabalia and at its entrance, and they were able to clash with this force from a distance of zero.
He explained that Al-Qassam fighters attacked the support force that rushed to the place with explosive devices, hit them directly, and then withdrew after blowing up the tunnel used in the operation.
Abu Ubaida confirmed that Al-Qassam fighters killed, wounded and captured all members of the Israeli force and seized military equipment.
He pointed out that Al-Qassam fighters carried out dozens of operations against the occupation forces over the course of more than two weeks in Rafah and Beit Hanoun.
Abu Ubaida pointed out that the occupation army “markets the exhumation as a military and moral achievement,” and added that it “is digging up the remains of its captives for the sake of Netanyahu’s personal machinations.”
The spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades said that the occupation government is moving from failure to failure, and the latest chapter of failure is what the occupation forces did in Jabalia and Rafah.
Abu Ubaida pointed out that the occupation government continues what he described as its blind and absurd policy of revenge and destruction, stressing that Al-Qassam fighters continue to teach the occupation lessons on the battlefields.
After Abu Ubaida’s speech, the Al-Qassam Brigades showed a video clip showing what appeared to be an Israeli soldier lying on the ground being dragged into a tunnel by one of the Al-Qassam fighters, as well as machine guns and helmets belonging to the occupation soldiers.
The video concluded with the phrase, “This is what was allowed to be published and the rest of the discussion.”
For its part, the Israeli army said after Abu Ubaida’s speech that “there is no kidnapping of soldiers.”