Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – broadcast scenes of an Israeli conscript being sniped in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, after the occupation army acknowledged his killing on Friday morning.
Al-Qassam said in the video statement that the operation to snipe Sergeant Eyal Shinz took place in the vicinity of Al-Shabili Mosque, east of Rafah, the border city with Egypt.
The photos showed some occupation soldiers climbing onto the roof of a house, and one of them was fatally injured and fell to the ground immediately.
This morning, the occupation army acknowledged the killing of a soldier from the 931st Battalion in the Nahal Brigade during battles with the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip.
Under the “permitted to publish” clause, the occupation army revealed that the dead soldier was Sergeant Eyal Shines (19 years old), noting that he was killed during a battle south of the Gaza Strip.
The Qassam Brigades’ sniper weapons were strongly present in the Israeli war on Gaza thanks to the locally made Al-Ghoul Qassam rifle, which was given this name after its developer, the martyr Adnan Al-Ghoul, and has a deadly range of up to two thousand metres.
It is not known precisely how many sniping operations have been carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades since the beginning of the current war, but on February 22, it revealed that its fighters carried out “57 sniping missions, including 34 with the Qassam Ghoul rifle, and led to the killing of dozens of occupation soldiers.”
According to the occupation army’s figures, the number of soldiers killed in its ranks since October 7 has risen to 668, including more than 314 killed since the start of the massive ground invasion of the Gaza Strip at the end of the same month, while the Palestinian resistance says that the occupation army’s losses are much greater than that.
