The Gaza-based Palestinian resistance fighters have killed and injured a number of Israeli occupation forces in an ambush in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, amid the regime’s escalated aggression on the besieged territory.
Palestine’s Safa news agency cited Hebrew-language reports as saying that a special force of the occupation army was subjected on Friday morning to a security attack east of Khan Younis, resulting in five deaths and injuries to others in its ranks after a bombed building exploded.
“At least five soldiers were killed and seven wounded, including two in critical condition by blowing up a building by military force,” the agency said.
Safa added that intensive air evacuations had been activated as Israeli military helicopters were sent to remove the wounded from inside the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Information Center said Israel’s special forces had entered to comb a building that was booby-trapped and prepared in advance, where it exploded and collapsed on the 12 troops and there were difficulties in evacuating them because of the intensity of the fire.
Other reports said the occupation army evacuated 13 soldiers from the site of the explosion, and the majority of the special forces who were wounded in the ambush were “elite.”
Earlier, the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, announced the implementation of a qualitative field operation on Sunday against the Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, confirming the targeting of military vehicles and the infliction of deaths and injuries among the Israeli soldiers.
The al-Qassam Brigades stated that they were able to destroy an Israeli tiger tanker using a Yasin 105 shell and a Shawaz explosive device, which led to the death and injury of its crew members.
Israel launched its Gaza genocide on October 7, 2023, after Hamas-led resistance groups carried out a military operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 54,677 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 125,530 others in the besieged territory.
During its bloody aggression, Israel has targeted Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, in blatant violation of international law.
Last November, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for the Israeli regime’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former war minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its war crimes against civilians in the enclave.
