Haaretz newspaper quoted the Israeli army as saying, on Tuesday, that 2 of its soldiers belonging to the elite unit were killed, and 2 others were seriously injured during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army had announced earlier, Tuesday, that its forces had killed a large number of Hamas militants in ground operations in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, in addition to striking about 300 targets.
On the other hand, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that its fighters opened fire from an ambush towards the vehicles penetrating west of Tawam in the northern Gaza Strip, and targeted 3 Israeli vehicles with “Al-Yassin 105” shells.
The Al-Qassam Brigades also said that its fighters ambushed Israeli vehicles penetrating the Juhr al-Dik area in the eastern Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip, and destroyed 3 of them.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, also stated that it targeted an armored force and an infantry force of Israel in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood with a number of mortar shells.
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The Israeli army announced the killing of 2 “elite soldiers” in Gaza