The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it blew up a tunnel with a number of occupation soldiers in Gaza, and also ambushed an Israeli special force in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam said that today it blew up a tunnel with a number of occupation soldiers on Jabal Al-Rayes, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, and confirmed that it left them dead and wounded. It also announced that it targeted 5 Israeli vehicles penetrating east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, amid the continued occupation bombing of the neighborhood for days.
It also announced that its fighters reported – after their return from the areas of clashes in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip – that they had set up a tight ambush for a special Israeli force in one of the houses in front of which the occupation vehicles were stationed in the camp.
Al-Qassam explained that as soon as the force members entered the house to rest, Al-Qassam fighters surprised them with bullets and anti-fortified shells, leaving them dead and wounded, then they withdrew from the site.
Also in Bureij camp, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yassin 105 shell north of the camp.
In turn, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that it had bombed, with “Badr 1” missiles, a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers and vehicles east of the Bureij camp.
Israeli losses
For its part, the Israeli occupation army announced on Monday that 2,234 soldiers – including 355 seriously injured – have been injured since the beginning of the war on Gaza, including 41 soldiers during the past 24 hours in the battles in the Gaza Strip.
The Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent also said that the occupation army informed the family of an Israeli from the Be’eri settlement of his death on October 7, after he was believed to be detained by Hamas in Gaza.
The latest toll of Israeli military deaths since the start of the Israeli war was 505 dead.
Dozens of martyrs in continuous bombing
Regarding the Israeli aggression, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the battles are currently concentrated around the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and that the continued Israeli bombing of the city since this morning resulted in the death of 9 Palestinians and the injury of dozens.
The correspondent said that the occupation intensified the bombing of the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, amid continuing fierce clashes, and carried out continuous artillery shelling on the southern neighborhoods in Gaza City.
For his part, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that there were casualties as a result of the Israeli artillery shelling on the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that it had transported six martyrs – most of them children – and two wounded after an Israeli plane targeted a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The occupation had targeted an inhabited house in the camp, killing 15 Palestinians and wounding others, according to an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent.
In the northern Gaza Strip, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that 6 Palestinians were martyred as a result of an Israeli occupation aircraft raid on the Bir al-Naja area, west of Jabalia.
The outcome of aggression
In a related development, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the toll of the Israeli aggression on the Strip since October 7, 2023 has risen to 21,978 martyrs and 57,697 injured.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in a press statement in Rafah that the occupation committed 13 massacres that left 156 martyrs and 246 injured during the past 24 hours.
Al-Qudra added that 326 health personnel were martyred in the Israeli aggression, and 104 ambulances were destroyed and taken out of service.
He confirmed that the occupation deliberately targeted 150 health institutions and put 30 hospitals out of service, in addition to continuing to arrest 99 health personnel in inhumane conditions.
He explained that there are 1.9 million displaced people exposed to famine and epidemics, including 50,000 pregnant women in displacement centers who face malnutrition and health complications due to lack of basic necessities.
Al-Qudra stressed the necessity of sending medical teams and field hospitals to meet the enormous need, and called on international institutions to work to protect the health system and its staff.
