The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced the targeting of 20 Israeli military vehicles during the past 48 hours in the Al-Daraj and Al-Tuffah areas in Gaza City.
It said that its fighters were engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces in the Al-Shaaf and Jabal Al-Rayes areas, east of Gaza City.
She added that they detonated an anti-personnel device in an Israeli infantry force, and targeted another force holed up in a building with a TPG shell, causing a large number of deaths and injuries among their ranks.
The Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed the destruction of two Israeli Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells, and the bombing of a gathering of occupation vehicles and soldiers with mortar shells in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, in addition to the downing of a Skylark-2 reconnaissance plane that was on an intelligence mission for the occupation army in Beit. Hanoun.
It also detonated a minefield in an infantry force of the occupation army and military vehicles north of the Bureij camp, in the middle of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding its members.
The Brigades announced that they had targeted an Israeli D9 bulldozer with a “Yassin 105” shell north of the Bureij camp, and said that it had hit it directly.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that “its fighters bombed Israeli crowds with a barrage of mortar shells in the Abasan area, east of Khan Yunis.”
The brigades added that they bombed the settlements of Holit, Sufa, and Nir Ishaq in the Gaza Strip with concentrated missile bursts.
Occupation losses
Meanwhile, the occupation army announced, on Friday, the killing of an officer and the serious wounding of another officer and soldier during battles in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the number of its wounded to 51 within two days.
Israeli media highlighted the deteriorating morale of the occupation soldiers participating in the war on Gaza.
The officially announced number of those killed by the Israeli army since the start of the ground operation in Gaza on October 27 last rose to 174, and the total announced number of those killed since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 last rose to 502, between an officer and a soldier.
As for those injured, Israeli statistics confirm that 2,159 soldiers have been injured since the seventh of last October, and that 936 soldiers have been injured since the start of the ground attack on Gaza.
