GAZA(Palestine Foundation Information Center)Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, along with other resistance factions continued on Monday its engagement in fierce clashes with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) some of whom were ambushed and killed from zero distance by the Brigades who also detonated explosive devices and tunnel openings during their confrontation with Israeli invasion forces in various axes in Gaza Strip, resulting in big losses among IOF soldiers and armor.
The PIC reporters revealed that the resistance fighters led by Al-Qassam Brigades are engaging in fierce battles with IOF in advance axes in Jabalia camp, Al-Shuja’iya and Khan Younis, while the remaining axes in Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Gaza are witnessing operations from time to time behind enemy lines.
Al-Qassam fighters targeted a special Israeli force holed up in a residential building in Beit Lahia with “TBG” shells, resulting in the killing and injuring of a number of IOF soldiers.
The Brigades pounded Tel Aviv with a missile barrage in response to Israeli bloody massacres against civilians.
The Brigades also targeted two Israeli Mirkva tanks with “Al-Yassin 105” shells in northern Khan Younis axis and fired mortar shells at IOF soldiers advancing into the Al-Mahatta area in the city of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, fierce clashes continued in various locations across Gaza amid Israeli artillery shelling in the east, north and center of Khan Younis.
Israeli army acknowledgment
Israeli army acknowledged the killing of three soldiers and the severe injury of a fourth in Gaza a few hours after announcing the killing of four other soldiers including two officers during ground battles in the Strip.
The Hebrew radio quoted the Israeli occupation army as saying that five of those soldiers were killed today in an ambush near a tunnel opening in Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, resistance sources charged that the IOF hides its real losses and discloses limited numbers only.
Ynetnews reported that among the dead announced by the army today were two killed in a single operation carried out by a Palestinian resistance fighter in Al-Qarara area, east of Khan Younis.
According to the newspaper, a fighter emerged from a tunnel hole inside a building, despite the heavy bombardment on buildings in Al-Qarara area in Khan Younis and planted an anti-personnel device and detonated it in an Israeli army infantry force, killing two soldiers instantly.
Yesterday, Al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters managed to detonate a large barrel anti-personnel device against dozens of IOF soldiers, killing and wounding 15 soldiers in Al-Maarri area, in Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.
According to “Akka” Statistics for Israeli Affairs, 107 Israeli officers and soldiers were killed in ground battles in Gaza since Tuesday, October 31, 2023.
Al-Qassam Brigades announced, on Sunday evening, that they have destroyed, completely or partially, 44 military vehicles over the last 48 hours on all fighting fronts in the Gaza Strip.
The Brigades said that their fighters confirmed the killing of 40 soldiers and the injury of dozens of others as a result of targeting the forces advancing into Gaza with anti-fortifications shells, missiles, and anti-personnel devices, clashing with them from zero distance and blowing up a number of the buildings they holed up in. The Brigades also targeted a field command headquarters and IOF soldiers with mortar shells and short-range missiles.
