Palestinian resistance factions launched coordinated attacks across Gaza, killing two Israeli soldiers, striking tanks, and engaging in direct combat with occupation forces.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, announced on Monday that its fighters, in coordination with the Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad movement, had successfully targeted an Israeli infantry unit in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to the statement, the unit had taken shelter inside a house when it was struck with an anti-personnel missile, resulting in several casualties.
The resistance fighters also reported that an Israeli soldier was shot and wounded with a Qassam Ghoul sniper rifle in the Sanati area, east of Abasan al-Kabira, near Khan Yunis.
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Separately, Al-Qassam fighters said they attacked an Israeli armored personnel carrier and a Merkava tank using a high-explosive landmine and a suicide bomb on June 10, east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military has confirmed the death of a Kfir Brigade soldier in the southern Gaza Strip.
In another incident, Al-Qassam Brigades reported targeting a Merkava tank with a high-explosive device on Al-Sikka Street, east of Jabaliya, on June 11.
Meanwhile, the Al-Quds Brigades stated that its fighters shelled a gathering of Israeli soldiers and vehicles near the Al-Qarara municipality, north of Khan Yunis, using 60mm mortar rounds.
The group also reported destroying a military vehicle with a pre-planted explosive barrel near Al-Huda Mosque in the Al-Manara neighborhood, south of Khan Yunis.
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Additionally, the Al-Quds Brigades said its special forces engaged in close-quarters combat with Israeli troops east of the Sheja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza City on Sunday evening, killing and injuring several soldiers.
The Israeli army later acknowledged the death of a second Kfir Brigade soldier during clashes in the area.
(PC, Al Mayadeen)
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