The Palestinian resistance announced that it carried out – today, Tuesday – new operations in the Gaza Strip that resulted in the death of Israeli soldiers, at a time when the Israeli army admitted that 5 of its officers and soldiers were killed and dozens of others were injured.
These operations included detonating a booby-trapped tunnel and targeting vehicles loaded with soldiers in several areas of the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – said that its fighters blew up a tunnel opening in an Israeli force consisting of 8 soldiers east of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, leaving them dead and wounded.
Northeast of the Bureij camp, Al-Qassam confirmed that it had targeted a troop carrier, killing and wounding its members. It also announced that two Merkava tanks had been targeted with “Al-Yassin 105” shells in the same area.
In the southern Gaza Strip, the brigades targeted an occupation tank and a military bulldozer north of the city of Khan Yunis with “Al-Yassin 105” shells.
The military wing of Hamas published video clips documenting previous operations, which included booby-trapping a house in Beit Hanoun and killing 5 soldiers there after luring them to it, targeting two Israeli forces in the Jabalia and Sheikh Zayed areas, and bombing a military jeep in the Abraj al-Nada area in the northern Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – said that it and the Al-Qassam Brigades were able to target 5 Israeli military vehicles in the advance axes in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.
The brigades also said that they bombed – in two batches – Ashkelon, Sderot, and settlements in the northern Gaza Strip with missile salvos.
Additional losses
Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced this evening that two officers and a soldier were killed and an officer and four soldiers were wounded during the battles in the Gaza Strip.
It was announced this morning that an officer and a soldier were killed and 43 others were wounded in battles within 24 hours.
This brings the officially announced number of deaths among the Israeli army – since the start of the ground incursion on October 26 – to 167.
The total number since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the war on Gaza – on October 7 – rose to 491 dead, including officers and soldiers.
In this context, Israeli Army Radio revealed that two soldiers were killed last month after a tank bombed a building in Gaza, which was later revealed to contain an Israeli battalion command.
The Israeli army suffered additional losses, while Israeli political and military leaders are talking about a new expansion of the scope of ground operations in Khan Yunis in the south, and in the Bureij camp in the centre.
The Palestinian resistance is waging fierce battles with the occupation forces in Khan Yunis in the south and Jabalia in the north, as well as in Juhr al-Dik, east of Bureij camp (central), and in neighborhoods in Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation army acknowledges that it is facing violent resistance, and former Israeli security officials doubted the possibility of achieving the declared goals of the war, most notably defeating and dismantling Hamas.