The Israeli occupation army admitted on Friday the killing of two other officers in battles described as fierce in the north and south of the Gaza Strip, while its fighters continued to launch a series of raids on various parts of the Gaza Strip, which led to the death and injury of a number of Palestinians.
With the Israeli army announcing the killing of two more of its soldiers, its death toll rises to 94 since the beginning of the ground operation on October 27, and 418 since the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood operations on the seventh of the same month.
In this context, Israeli media reported that an Israeli soldier was killed a few days ago by firing a missile from an army helicopter that missed the target location.
Agence France-Presse said that Israeli tanks and bulldozers arrived yesterday, Thursday, with air and naval support, to Khan Yunis, where fierce fighting is taking place in this largest city in the southern Gaza Strip. The resistance also clashed with the occupation army to the north in Gaza City and the neighboring Jabalia area.
The leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Osama Hamdan, confirmed that the resistance in Gaza is managing the battle with full force. He added, in a press conference from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, that the resistance is waging fierce battles against the occupation forces penetrating Gaza on various fronts.
Bombing and raids
Meanwhile, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes launched raids on various parts of the Gaza Strip on Friday morning. Palestinian medical sources reported that 5 Palestinians were killed in a raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Injuries were also recorded in shelter centers in Jabalia camp following Israeli firebombing. Israeli artillery renewed its bombardment of the eastern neighborhoods of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. The fighters also bombed Al-Maghazi camp and a house in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Earlier, dozens of people were martyred and wounded in the ongoing Israeli bombing of the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip. Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that at least two people were martyred in a bombing on a house for the “Al-Nadi” family in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. The reporter reported that dozens of wounded people arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
In Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, the occupation army surrounded displaced civilians raising white flags, and killed a number of them. One of those trapped in Khalifa School in Beit Lahia said that the number of those trapped was no less than 7,000, most of them children and women. He added in an interview with Tel Aviv Tribune that Israeli snipers were occupying nearby buildings and targeting civilians.
The Tel Aviv Tribune team monitored an Israeli Apache military helicopter at the moment it launched a missile towards one of the sites there, and the bombing coincided with the hearing of heavy machine gun fire.
Helicopters belonging to Unit 669, which is responsible for transporting the wounded of the occupation, moved from the battlefields several times during the morning and evening yesterday, carrying wounded soldiers, who were transported to hospitals in southern and central Israel.
Urgent | “Al-Qassam Brigades”:
“We thwarted a Zionist attempt to reach one of the Zionist prisoners at dawn today.”
“We discovered a special Zionist force while it was trying to advance to liberate an enemy prisoner, and we clashed with it.” pic.twitter.com/zGhh9bN9Jc– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) December 8, 2023
A clash and the death of a prisoner
In a remarkable development on the ground, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that it had thwarted “a Zionist attempt to reach one of the Zionist prisoners at dawn today, and clashed with it.”
She said that the clash led to the death of the captured soldier, Sa’ar Baruch (25 years old), the wounding of the Special Forces members, and the intervention of warplanes with bombing to cover the withdrawal. It also ended with the Phalange taking control of a rifle and a communications device for the Israeli Special Forces during the clash.
Earlier, Al-Qassam reported that it had destroyed 135 Israeli military vehicles during the past three days, and confirmed the bombing of the headquarters of the Israeli field command room in the axis south of Gaza City.
It said that its fighters were able to target an Israeli foot force of 15 soldiers with three explosive devices, killing and wounding them east of Khan Yunis.
Al-Qassam fighters also clashed with an Israeli foot force consisting of 6 soldiers, leaving them dead and wounded, and they seized a “robot” they had in their possession.
Al-Qassam fighters also managed to snipe two Israeli soldiers with a Qassam “Ghoul” rifle northeast of the city of Khan Yunis, and targeted Israeli army forces penetrating the axis north of the city of Khan Yunis with mortar shells.
The Al-Qassam Brigades added that they targeted two Israeli tanks in the eastern axis of the city of Khan Yunis with “Al-Yassin 105” missiles.
The dead and wounded of the occupation
Since yesterday morning, the Israeli army announced the killing of 5 soldiers and officers in the battles in the Gaza Strip, including Gal Eisenkot, son of Minister Gadi Eisenkot, a member of the War Council and former chief of staff of the Israeli army. He was killed in the explosion of a mined tunnel opening in the northern Gaza Strip.
A number of other soldiers and officers were also injured in the fierce battles in Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Khan Yunis, and other fighting areas.
A spokesman for Soroka Hospital in Beersheba said that the hospital received 24 wounded, two of whom were seriously injured.
For his part, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said that the army lost many of its best personnel. He added that the army and the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet) arrested and interrogated hundreds of those whom he said were suspected of involvement in “terrorist activities.”
