A Palestinian resistance operation yesterday, Monday, in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulted in the killing of 21 Israeli soldiers. It was announced Tuesday morning by the occupation army, describing it as the most difficult since the beginning of the ground invasion of the Strip on October 27 last.
In the details of the operation, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari explained that Palestinian fighters fired an RPG missile at a tank that was securing the Israeli force, and at the same time an explosion occurred in two two-story buildings, while most of the force was present inside or near them.
Their explosive devices exploded
For its part, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that the incident, which led to the death of 21 soldiers, occurred in the Maghazi camp.
She explained that the incident occurred when soldiers booby-trapped two buildings in the camp, and then members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) fired anti-tank missiles, which led to the explosion of explosive devices and the collapse of the two buildings on the Israeli soldiers.
She added that the explosion that killed the soldiers occurred 600 meters from the border fence, stressing that rescue operations for those injured in the collapse of the two buildings from under the rubble continued for long hours last night.
She pointed out that the tank crew, which was present to secure the soldiers at the scene of the accident, was directly hit by a shell from Palestinian fighters.
While the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that the preliminary investigation into the circumstances of the incident that led to the killing of the soldiers in the Maghazi camp showed that the explosion occurred as a result of the firing of two RPG missiles that hit a tank and mined buildings that collapsed on the soldiers.
Why did they booby-trap the houses?
For its part, the Israeli Walla website reported that the soldiers were booby-trapping the two buildings in the Maghazi camp with the aim of blowing up 10 houses in the area, so that they would be exposed to the army, under the pretext of preventing Hamas fighters from hiding there, according to what he put it.
The site confirmed that the Palestinian resistance’s bombing of the two adjacent buildings led to their collapse, making the area appear to be a hotbed of destruction, burying the soldiers under the rubble, describing the incident as an “earthquake.”
The resistance operation in the Maghazi camp came after the Israeli army announced yesterday, Monday, that it was continuing to fight the Palestinian factions in the northern and central Gaza Strip, while Israeli media had been talking for days about the army moving into the third phase of the war, and withdrawing a number of forces from the northern areas of the Strip. .