• An al-Qassam Brigade fighter targets a "Storm" military vehicle in al-Tuffah neighborhood, Gaza, Occupied Palestine (Screenshot/ Al Qassam Military Media)

Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said Sunday that its Resistance fighters executed a complex ambush, dubbed “Breaking the Sword”, against Israeli occupation forces east of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza on Sunday.

In detail, al-Qassam stated that its fighters targeted an Israeli military Storm vehicle, used by the Combat Intelligence Battalion of the Gaza Division, with an anti-tank shell, inflicting confirmed casualties.

When Israeli reinforcements arrived for rescue, they were ambushed with an anti-personnel explosive, leaving troops dead and wounded.

Al-Qassam also confirmed targeting a newly established Israeli military position in the ambush area with four RPG shells, followed by mortar fire, and the group’s military media released footage showing the attack on invading occupation vehicles near the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

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“Breaking the Sword” ambush came yesterday, when the al-Qassam Brigades announced the execution of a complex ambush in the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, where an Israeli force was left with casualties, including dead and wounded.

Israeli media acknowledged the killing of one Israeli soldier and the injury of four others in a "serious incident" in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli KAN channel pointed out that the "incident" in northern Gaza took place near the location visited by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Security Minister Israel Katz last week.

Israeli media cited former Israeli intelligence officer Michael Milstein as saying that "what reinforces Hamas’s resilience is its deep ideological conviction, which enables it to persevere to the very end."

"Hamas fighters are prepared to fight to the last breath," he indicated.

For its part, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, published footage documenting its fighters seizing two Israeli military drones while they were carrying out reconnaissance missions in the skies over Gaza City.

This comes as "Israel" continues to ramp up its assault on Gaza, displacing and killing tens of thousands of people and exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.