Four Israeli soldiers were wounded in Rafah after Palestinian resistance fighters emerged from a tunnel, fired an anti-tank missile, and engaged occupation forces in close-range clashes.
The Israeli occupation army said that three soldiers from the Golani Brigade were wounded, one of them seriously, along with a fourth soldier from the Gaza Division, who sustained moderate injuries during clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to the military, the injuries occurred during confrontations with a group of fighters who emerged from a tunnel in eastern Rafah.
Earlier, Israel’s Channel 14 reported heavy gunfire exchanges between occupation forces and Palestinian fighters in the Rafah area.
Israeli Army Radio quoted a military source claiming that soldiers killed two fighters, while a third reportedly placed an explosive device on an armored vehicle before withdrawing back into the tunnel.
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The same source said that a three-member cell had exited a tunnel in Rafah and fired an anti-tank missile at Israeli forces.
Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli military helicopters landed east of Rafah, and quoted the Israeli outlet Walla, citing security sources, as saying that an Israeli force had been struck with an anti-tank missile, leading to direct clashes with Palestinian fighters.
In recent weeks, Israeli media have circulated claims that all resistance fighters trapped in the area had been eliminated, despite continued reports of clashes and operations in eastern Rafah.
Israel committed a series of violations of the ceasefire agreement signed between Hamas and Israel, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkiye, and sponsored by the United States.
According to the government media office in Gaza, the Israeli army violated the agreement 591 times, resulting in the deaths of about 357 Palestinians and injuring 903 others up to last Sunday.
The Israeli military operation, which began on October 7, 2023, has left more than 70,000 Palestinian people killed, and about 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations.
(PC, AJA)
