The Israeli regime forces have been hit by three major deadly counterattacks killing at least five of them within the space of just a single day amid Tel Aviv’s war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.
The regime’s media outlets reported the triple retaliation on Friday, identifying each development as a “security incident.”
The five-strong fatalities were caused during the first incident that took place in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza following explosions inside a booby-trapped building.
The Israeli military was then forced to relocate 12 remaining forces from the area.
The second development also resulted in the death of a number of troopers and injured some others, the outlets said, without offering the precise number of the casualties.
The Israeli military was forced to order evacuation efforts following the latter development.
Israeli helicopters were also scrambled to an area in Gaza, where a third counterstrike led to injuries among invading troops.
Approximately 861 Israeli forces have been killed in the Palestinian territory since October 2023, when the regime launched the war in response to a historic resistance operation.
The operation, codenamed al-Aqsa Storm, had seen resistance fighters venture deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories, and ensnare hundreds of Zionists.
Over 5,900 more troops have also been wounded, many having received critical injury.
Despite initiating the war with airstrikes, the regime soon resorted to ground offensives, which further exposed the invading forces to retaliation efforts by Gaza’s resistance fighters.
Notable incidents contributing to the toll include an ambush in Gaza City’s Shuja’iyya neighborhood in December 2023, which resulted in 10 fatalities, and the explosion of a tank on January 22, 2024, that killed 24 Israeli forces.
The war has also placed immense strain on the troops’ psychological conditions, with reports of increasing cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among the troops and a rising number of refusals to re-enlist.
The war has additionally been taking a considerable toll on the hardware division of the Israeli war machine.
Also on Friday, Israeli paper Maariv cited senior military official as saying that the regime’s army was being drained. “We are suffering from breakdowns in tanks, armored personnel carriers, weapons, and a shortage of spare parts,” the officials said.
