The Palestinian resistance announced the destruction of about 15 vehicles of the Israeli occupation army and the killing of more than 12 people among its ranks. While the Israeli raids continued to bomb many areas in the Gaza Strip, leaving 163 martyrs, a number of its reserve forces refused to participate in the fighting inside the Strip.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that its fighters in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip confirmed the destruction of 6 Israeli Merkava tanks. In Al-Maghazi camp and Al-Tuffah neighborhood, they destroyed 3 vehicles, including a troop carrier and a bulldozer, one of which was destroyed in a joint mission with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters killed 5 soldiers, 4 of whom were snipers in the Maghazi camp, while the fifth was killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
Al-Qassam in Al-Maghazi camp targeted a special force of 7 soldiers with a TPG shell, and finished them off from a distance of zero.
In the Khan Yunis axis, the Al-Qassam Brigades targeted a gathering of incursive occupation soldiers and vehicles with mortar shells. Al-Qassam said that its fighters targeted an Israeli foot force, killing and wounding its members on the outskirts of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
In the Karama neighborhood – northwest of Gaza City – Al-Qassam fighters ambushed a special Israeli force in a house and detonated an anti-personnel device. In the Karama neighborhood and in Khan Yunis, they also targeted 3 tanks, including two Merkava tanks, with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell.
Al-Qassam broadcasted pictures that it said were of the seizure of two Skylark drones in Gaza City. It also broadcast pictures that it said were of Qassam mortar units targeting enemy concentrations in the areas of incursion into the Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades said that they bombed with mortar shells gatherings of Israeli soldiers south of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, and targeted a military vehicle and a bulldozer east of Bureij.
The Al-Quds Brigades announced that they shot down an Israeli Quadcopter drone while it was carrying out an intelligence mission in the Bureij camp.
Al-Quds Brigades also stated that they targeted “the Zionist enemy’s command headquarters with a guided missile in the vicinity of the College of Science and Technology, south of Khan Yunis.”
Occupation losses
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation army announced the killing of 4 soldiers, including 3 officers, in battles in the Gaza Strip.
The occupation army also announced that 35 soldiers were injured in battles in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
Thus, the death toll of the occupation army announced since the beginning of the war on Gaza on October 7 has risen to 529, including 195 since the start of the ground incursion into the Gaza Strip on the 27th of the same month, according to army data.
The number of injured among the occupation army since the outbreak of the war rose to 2,602, including 1,152 since the start of the ground operation in Gaza.
Airdrops and bombing
On the other hand, the Israeli army stated that it carried out an airdrop to the 98th Division, which is fighting in Khan Yunis in Gaza.
Pictures published by the Israeli army showed the process of transferring this equipment to warplanes. It also showed the flight of the planes and then the airdrop operation over Khan Yunis. The equipment included weapons, fuel, and food.
The occupation forces continued their continuous bombing throughout the Gaza Strip, and the Ministry of Health in the Strip announced that the number of martyrs today alone exceeded 163, dozens of them in targeting homes and residential buildings in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, and others in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
Special photos from Tel Aviv Tribune showed Israeli occupation army aircraft bombing residential buildings in the Qaizan al-Najjar area, southeast of Khan Yunis.
Pictures obtained by Tel Aviv Tribune also showed the effects of the occupation forces’ destruction of the “Block C” residential area in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip. The occupation forces repositioned themselves on Salah al-Din Street, near the northern entrance to the Nuseirat camp.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that clashes took place between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces in the southwestern areas of Gaza City. The reporter confirmed that the occupation forces targeted these areas with several raids.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed the continuation of the war on Gaza until “the elimination of Hamas, the return of the kidnapped people, and ensuring that Gaza does not pose any threat to Israel.”
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of Wednesday, left 24,448 martyrs and 61,504 injured, and caused the displacement of more than 85% (about 1.9 million people) of the Strip’s population, according to the Palestinian authorities and the United Nations.