1/8/2024–|Last updated: 1/8/202410:06 PM (Mecca time)
Israeli sources revealed that Monday is the “hardest” day for the Israeli occupation army since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip.
The sources said, “9 officers and soldiers were killed and others were injured in two separate attacks during battles in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.”
She added that one of the two attacks was an explosion of ammunition in a truck, which led to the death and injury of soldiers, while the other resulted from the bombing of a building containing soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip.
In turn, Israeli Channel 12 said that Staff Bisha, a sergeant in the Givati Brigade, died of a heart attack after soldiers under his command were killed in the Gaza Strip.
The channel quoted those close to the Israeli sergeant as saying that his death resulted from his inability to bear what he saw in Gaza.
Qassam ambushes
An hour ago, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that it “thwarted an Israeli attempt to liberate one of the enemy’s prisoners in the Bureij camp (center) after a special force infiltrated a place where the enemy believed there was a prisoner inside. The force was confronted, its mission thwarted, clashes with it, and its members are captured.” One was killed or wounded, and some of the special forces’ belongings were seized.”
In a separate statement, Al-Qassam said that its fighters targeted an Israeli special force inside a house with an anti-personnel missile, killing and wounding its members near the station area in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Brigades added that its mujahideen were able to detonate an anti-personnel device (Thunder) in an Israeli force and clash with the remaining members with machine guns inside a school near the station area in Khan Yunis, confirming that rescue crews came to the scene to evacuate the dead and injured.
According to the latest data published by the army on Monday, the number of wounded soldiers and officers has risen to 1,042 since the start of its ground attack on Gaza on October 27, including 228 seriously wounded, while the total number has reached 2,438 wounded since the outbreak of the war on the 7th of last year. Same month.
The number of dead Israeli soldiers and officers has reached 510 since the start of the war, including about 180 since the start of the ground attack.
Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which has left, as of Monday, 23,84 martyrs and 58,926 wounded, according to data from the Ministry of Health in the Strip, and most of the martyrs and wounded were women and children.