The Israeli occupation army announced that a soldier was killed in battles in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, Saturday, and confirmed that an officer and two soldiers were seriously injured in the battles taking place in the center and south of the Strip.
Earlier on Saturday, the Israeli occupation army announced that 16 soldiers were wounded in the Gaza battles, and Israeli media also said that a reserve soldier returning from the battles in the Gaza Strip shot and killed his friend in Tel Aviv.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced yesterday that it had killed and wounded 16 Israeli officers and soldiers, and destroyed several military vehicles, partially or completely.
Al-Qassam added that its fighters bombed, with mortar shells, 6 times, the field command headquarters and military concentrations of the occupation forces in the various fighting fronts in the Gaza Strip.
Yesterday, Saturday, fierce battles took place between the occupation forces and the Palestinian resistance in the northern Gaza Strip, and the occupation admitted that a number of its soldiers were injured.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said that the resistance factions responded to attempts to advance by the occupation forces in eastern Jabalia. It also announced that Israeli soldiers had bombed, northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said that it targeted an Israeli position in the vicinity of the Martyrs’ Mosque in Khan Yunis, used for command and control.
