12/24/2023–|Last updated: 12/24/202307:05 PM (Mecca time)
Israeli Channel 12 quoted the occupation army as describing the end of the last week as the toughest since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, after 15 soldiers and officers were killed and 44 others were injured, 10 of whom were in serious condition, on the last day of the week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Sunday that Israel is “paying a heavy price” in the war that has been taking place in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
“We pay a very high price in the war, but we have no choice but to continue fighting,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of the weekly government meeting.
In a report today, the Associated Press described the occupation army’s announcement of the killing of these soldiers in Gaza as one of the most violent days of battles since Israel began its ground attack on the Strip at the end of last October.
She pointed out that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is still capable of fighting despite the brutal war that has been going on for weeks.
This brings the total number of Israeli army deaths since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the war on Gaza to 487 soldiers and officers, including 160 killed since the start of the ground operation.
Resistance operations
However, the daily losses acknowledged by the occupation remain less than what the Palestinian resistance announces. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of Hamas – announced that it killed a large number of Israeli soldiers in ambushes it set up for the occupation forces in the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said – yesterday, Saturday – that they killed all members of 4 Israeli military vehicles in a precise ambush in Juhr al-Dik in the middle of the Gaza Strip, after detonating a field of anti-personnel and anti-armour devices in the Israeli force.
The Brigades added that their fighters destroyed an Israeli tank that rushed to the place with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell and targeted rescue and evacuation forces in the area of the operation, noting that occupation planes and ambulances were seen transporting the dead from the place.
To the east of Juhr al-Dik, near the border fence, Al-Qassam members targeted an Israeli foot force with an explosive device and machine guns, killing and wounding its members.
In the northern Gaza Strip, specifically Jabalia al-Balad, the Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that they killed and wounded a large number of occupation soldiers, stressing that clashes in this axis are continuing.
It also said that its fighters destroyed 5 Israeli tanks in Jabalia using two Israeli missiles that did not explode, confirming that one of the fighters killed 4 soldiers from zero distance in the Al-Qasasib neighborhood in the Jabalia camp.
In the southern Gaza Strip, the Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that they lured 5 Israeli soldiers from the “Yahloum” unit to the tunnel east of Khan Yunis and blew it up after they entered it, confirming that they were eliminated from point zero.
Al-Qassam fighters also destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell north of the city of Khan Yunis, causing it to catch fire, according to a statement from the military wing of the Hamas movement.
This coincides with clashes between the resistance and the occupation forces in Jabalia al-Balad, where the occupation forces are trying to advance amid heavy artillery shelling and the flight of Israeli fighter jets in the skies of the northern Gaza Strip.
Source : Associated Press + Tel Aviv Tribune + Israeli press