Abu Obeida: tunnels were booby trapped taking out Yahalom operatives

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
24 Dec 2023 23:42
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Abu Obeida says that 24 military operations were executed targeting occupation forces with shells and anti-fortification and anti-personnel IEDs.

A screengrab from a video depicting al-Qassam fighters engaging Israeli troops garrisoned in a house in northern Gaza (Military Media)

The military spokesperson for Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, announced on Sunday evening that Al-Qassam fighters had achieved several military achievements in the past four days.

Abo Obeida announced that 35 military vehicles were completely or partially destroyed, the liquidation of 48 Israeli soldiers, and the wounding of dozens to varying degrees of severity.

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He added that 24 military operations were executed targeting occupation forces with shells and anti-fortification and anti-personnel IEDs: engaging them from point-blank range, and targeting their reinforcement rescue teams.

Additionally, he noted that two tunnels were blown up after being boobytrapped taking out soldiers of the IOF's "Yahalom" unit (combat engineering corps).

He also reported 6 successful sniping operations.

This comes in addition to shelling the IOF's field command rooms, and military gatherings with short-range mortar shells and rockets along all combat axes in the Gaza Strip.

Moreover, the Qassam Brigade fired barrages of rockets against settlements in "Um Al-Rashrash".

As the Palestinian resistance ravaged the ranks of invading Israeli soldiers in Gaza, the Israeli regime grew more concerned not only about the ground invasion's prospects of success but also the mounting losses.

Earlier today, the occupation prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been the most vehement warmonger against the people of Gaza, admitted that the small besieged Palestinian strip is exacting a "very heavy price" as the death toll of Israeli soldiers killed by the resistance is mounting; with 14 soldiers reported to have been neutralized since Friday.

"This is a difficult morning, after a very difficult day of fighting in Gaza," Netanyahu said.

"The war is exacting a very heavy price... but we have no choice but to keep fighting."

"We are continuing with full force until the end, until victory, until we achieve all of our goals: the destruction of Hamas, the return of our hostages, and ensuring that Gaza will never again constitute a threat to the State of Israel," he added.

"Let it be clear: This will be a long war... (until) Hamas is eliminated and we restore security in both the north and the south."

The Israeli occupation forces said that as many as 485 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7.