The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Resistance movement, posted a video Wednesday showing its fighters luring an Israeli infantry unit into a tunnel and trapping them in it in a successful ambush in the Sheikh Radwan area.

The footage was said to date back to late December.

كتائب القسام توزع مشاهد حول استدراج قوة إسرائيلية راجلة لأحد الأنفاق وإيقاعهم في كمين محكم في منطقة الشيخ رضوان نهاية الشهر الماضي.#الميادين #فلسطين #غزة pic.twitter.com/Y6Z5kmrmfh

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Moreover, the al-Qassam Brigades, announced Tuesday that they successfully hacked an Israeli Skylark drone that was on a reconnaissance mission east of al-Zaytoon neighborhood in Gaza.

In the same direction, al-Qassam announced that they had blown up two tunnels with Israeli infantry units inside them after they approached the tunnels' openings. All the Israeli members were either killed or wounded.

Paramount losses

The Resistance fighters also engaged an invading force of Israeli soldiers using small arms before they engaged with an RPG an Israeli Hummer that arrived as backup to support the struggling soldiers, which could be seen blowing up in a video shared by the Resistance.

The al-Qassam brigades also announced that its fighters in Khan Younis targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yassin-105 armor-piercing rocket. 

Since the start of the war on October 7, 519 Israeli troops have been killed, 180 of whom were killed since the start of ground battles in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media. However, it is not clear whether or not this number takes the new deaths into account.

In addition, Israeli sources claim that 1,042 soldiers have been injured since the start of the mentioned battles, 288 of whom are seriously injured and 45 receiving treatment since the beginning of the war. 

Despite the constant blackout and censorship imposed by the Israeli occupation forces, the accurate statements issued by the Resistance, and the video clips that document its targeting, directing of specific strikes, and ambushes of the invading forces have shown that losses incurred by the IOF are extremely high. 

A report by the Israeli Ynet news website revealed on Friday that at least 12,500 Israeli occupation troops will be categorized as disabled. 

These numbers were described by Ynet as markers of a "national event of a historical magnitude," in the entire history of the occupation.