1/20/2024–|Last updated: 1/20/202409:44 PM (Mecca time)
The battles between the occupation forces and the Palestinian resistance in the northern Gaza Strip increased in ferocity today, Saturday, and the occupation admitted that 16 of its soldiers were wounded. It also continued its massacres and violent bombardment of various areas of the Gaza Strip, leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded.
The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – said that the resistance factions repelled 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.
Al-Qassam broadcast a video clip targeting Israeli vehicles penetrating the Jabari site east of Jabalia, where the intensity of armed clashes is escalating.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces intensified their aerial and artillery bombardment, and that sounds of clashes with heavy machine guns were heard east of Jabalia.
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.
The Al-Quds Brigades broadcast scenes that it said were of a sniper attack carried out by its mujahideen against Israeli soldiers south of the Gaza District in the Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades said that they destroyed military vehicles of the occupation army and left its soldiers dead or wounded in an ambush in eastern Gaza.
Wounded by the occupation army
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation army announced that 16 soldiers were wounded in the Gaza battles.
In turn, Israeli media said that a reservist soldier returning from battles in the Gaza Strip shot and killed his friend in Tel Aviv.
On the other hand, the Israeli military spokesman said that an Air Force drone bombed a group of militants yesterday who tried to plant explosive devices in the northern Gaza Strip.
The occupation army also announced the destruction of platforms for launching missiles from the Gaza Strip and several buildings used to monitor and control its forces in the Gaza Strip.
He said that his forces found a missile manufacturing workshop north of the Gaza Strip belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement and destroyed its contents.
He also announced the destruction of platforms for launching a number of long-range missiles found in the northern Gaza Strip.
14 massacre
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the occupation committed 14 massacres against families in the Strip, killing 165 martyrs and 280 wounded during the past 24 hours.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 11 Palestinians were martyred as a result of the violent and continuous Israeli bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip.
The reporter reported that 3 Palestinians were martyred in a bombing on the Tal al-Salatin area, west of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, and 4 others in a bombing that targeted an apartment in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
He also reported that the bodies of 3 martyrs had arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza after they were recovered from under the rubble of a bombed house in the Tal Al-Salatin area in Beit Lahia.
Regarding the number of victims since October 7, the Ministry announced that it had risen to 24,927 martyrs, in addition to 62,388 wounded.
In the south of the Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces blew up a number of homes in the town of Al-Qarara, while Israeli fighters launched air strikes and artillery shelled Bani Suhaila, Al-Zanah and Abasan, east of Khan Yunis.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the occupation forces targeted the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis with a series of air strikes and artillery shelling.
Earlier, the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Hospital in Gaza was subjected to Israeli air and artillery bombardment, and Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the area targeted by Israel includes residential complexes in which a large number of civilians live, adding that a number of the wounded have not been recovered from the place yet.