The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, announced on Sunday an operation targeting a large number of Israeli invading soldiers in Gaza.
According to a statement released by Al-Qassam, their fighters managed to locate 60 soldiers who were positioned east of Juhr al-Dik, south of Gaza City.
The fighters reportedly targeted the invading Israeli forces with three anti-personnel devices and they withdrew to their positions safely, after killing and wounding a large number of Israeli soldiers.
AL-QASSAM: We killed a large number of Israeli soldiers after detonating three explosive devices around the deployment, east of Juhr Al-Dik.
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“At exactly 4:30, the devices were detonated among the occupation soldiers, and one of the fighters advanced to deal with the remaining members of the force,” the statement read.
“After inflicting significant casualties among the occupation soldiers, they withdrew safely to their positions.”
The operation comes after a bloody night, when scores of Palestinians were reportedly killed and more wounded across the Gaza Strip.
GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE to Al-Jazeera: More than 700 were killed in Gaza during the past 24 hours. More than one and a half million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
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Al-Jazeera quoted Gaza’s Ministry of Health as saying that 700 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours as Israel resumed its airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.
A four-day truce, which began on Friday, November 24, was extended twice, and ended on Friday, December 1, at 7 am local time.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
