Dozens of Israeli soldiers come under direct fire of Gaza Resistance

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
13 Feb 2024 00:20
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The spokesperson for al-Qassam Brigades announced that three Israeli captives succumbed to wounds they suffered due to direct Israeli shelling.

Al-Qassam Brigades poster published on February 12, 2024, shows a number of Israeli occupation soldiers in the Gaza Strip. (Al-Qassam Brigades/Military media)

The Palestinian Resistance continued to hit hard against invading Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip on the 129th day of the Israeli aggression.

Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters were able to eliminate, from point blank range, 10 Israeli troops in the town of Aabasan, located to the east of the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. In the same area, al-Qassam fighters detonated an anti-personnel explosive device, killing and injuring members of another Israeli force.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades said that its fighters ambushed an Israeli force on Monday dawn, in the town of Maen to the east of the city of Khan Younis. Several fighters awaited the arrival of an Israeli force to the site where the ambush was planned to take place. Upon arrival, fighters directly targeted the force with anti-personnel shells, thermobaric shells, and assault rifles, killing and injuring its members.

Al-Quds Brigades' mortar units also targeted an Israeli command and control center, set up in Khan Younis.

Al-Mujahideen Brigades fighters launched a rocket attack on an Israeli site equipped with spyware and reconnaissance equipment, to the east of the central Gaza Strip. The Brigades also announced that its fighters killed and injured an Israeli force that had taken position in a building that it had previously set up for detonation.

Israeli military kills another 3 captives

On Sunday, al-Qassam Brigades announced that following continuous Israeli shelling and strikes on Palestinian residential buildings in the Gaza Strip, two Israeli captives held by the Resistance were killed, while another eight were injured, in the past 96 hours from the moment the announcement was made.

The Resistance faction stressed that Israeli authorities bear full responsibility for the lives of the injured captives, who are at risk of dying at any moment due to the deterioration of health-related resources in the Strip.

On Monday, Abu Obeida, the military spokesperson for al-Qassam, said that three of the eight injured captives died, after sustaining injuries inflicted upon them by their own armed forces.

The spokesperson said that the Resistance will postpone a more detailed announcement, which will include the names and pictures of the killed captives until the fate of the remaining wounded captives becomes clear.

Number of Israeli casualties is on the rise

Earlier today, the Israeli occupation military confirmed that two of its soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip, raising the number of its killed troops since October 7 to 566.

The occupation military identified the killed soldiers as Sgt. First Class Adi Eldor of the elite Maglan unit, and his colleague Sgt. First Class (res.) Alon Kleinman.

According to the military, the two soldiers were killed after being targeted by an anti-armor rocket in Khan Younis.

Seeking to conceal the extent of its losses, the Israeli occupation military is imposing strict censorship on the accurate figures of its casualties during the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip, but footage published by the military media of the Palestinian Resistance factions indicates that the losses incurred are much greater than officially declared.

In a related context, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported last week that the Israeli occupation military has treated about 13,000 injured troops since October 7.

As a portion of the injured were discharged after receiving treatments, 2,830 troops remain in hospitals in ongoing treatment, the newspaper mentioned.