The Palestinian resistance confirmed the targeting of members of the Israeli occupation army in various locations in the Gaza Strip, and Israeli Radio said that the army deepened and expanded its operations in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – broadcast images showing an Israeli spy drone, which it said it had captured in an intelligence operation in the northern Gaza Strip.
Pictures obtained by Tel Aviv Tribune showed scenes of battles fought by Al-Qassam on the outskirts of Gaza City, and showed the brigades targeting Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the Al-Daraj and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods.
The Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – said that its fighters targeted, with a “Badr 1” missile, a gathering of occupation soldiers east of the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The brigades also bombed with mortar shells a site where occupation soldiers are stationed, east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, and targeted an Israeli military vehicle with an RPG shell in the center of Khan Yunis.
For his part, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent confirmed that the resistance is confronting the occupation forces with machine guns in the Sheikh Radwan and Al-Nasr neighborhoods in Gaza City, and said that violent clashes are taking place southwest of the city following an attempt by the Israeli occupation forces to advance.
The occupation army announced the killing of two soldiers in battles yesterday in the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of its deaths to 532 since the seventh of last October.
7 Israeli brigades
On the other hand, Israeli Radio said that the occupation army deepened and expanded its operations in Khan Yunis, and explained that there are 7 brigades active underground and above ground in the region.
The Battle of Khan Yunis is approaching its third month without the Israeli army being able to tighten its control over the governorate, which the occupation army commanders see as the most important militarily center for the resistance.
The occupation forces published – earlier – pictures showing a tunnel that they said was housing prisoners in Khan Yunis, and the video clip showed the path of a tunnel extending hundreds of meters and a number of rooms, and the occupation army spokesman, Daniel Hagari, announced – on Saturday – that the army had found this tunnel underneath. One of the houses in Khan Yunis, confirming that they had obtained evidence indicating that it was used to detain Israeli kidnappers at different periods, adding that the depth of the tunnel reached 20 meters, and included 5 cells and a central courtyard.