12/20/2023–|Last updated: 12/20/202309:27 PM (Mecca time)
Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – said that during the past 72 hours, Al-Qassam fighters were able to completely or partially destroy 41 military vehicles, and killed 25 Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, in addition to wounding dozens of civilians. Israeli soldiers sustained varying injuries.
The Al-Qassam Phalange spokesman indicated that the Phalange fighters targeted the invading Israeli forces with missiles and explosive devices and engaged in combat from zero distance. They also targeted rescue teams, in addition to booby-trapping two tunnels and a house, blowing them up with occupation soldiers, and sniping one of the soldiers.
Abu Ubaida continued, “Our mujahideen destroyed headquarters, field command rooms, and military concentrations with mortar shells and short-range missiles.”
Destruction of Israeli vehicles
A short while ago, the Al-Qassam Brigades said – in successive statements on Telegram – that its members clashed with an Israeli force in the Saraya area in Gaza City, and that they confirmed the killing of 4 soldiers and the injury of others.
The Al-Qassam Brigades also announced that it targeted an Israeli force of 12 soldiers barricaded inside a building in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
Al-Qassam added that it targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Tal Al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip.
Before that, Al-Qassam announced that it had targeted 3 Israeli Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam reported that its fighters targeted 8 Israeli vehicles in the Sabra and Tal al-Hawa areas in Gaza City.
Al-Qassam also announced that it targeted two Israeli tanks and a troop carrier with a strobe device and Al-Yassin 10 shells, in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
This morning, the Israeli occupation army announced the killing of two officers, one of them a major from the Givati Brigade, in battles south of Gaza. It was also announced that 29 soldiers were injured in the Gaza Strip battles during the past 24 hours.