IOF announce one of their officers dead in central Gaza

By Al Mayadeen English
10 Jan 2024 09:09

With this announcement, the death toll of IOF soldiers has hit 520 since October 7.

Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in the Southern Gaza Strip, January 7, 2024. (AP)

The Israeli occupation forces announced today that one of their officers was killed and another was seriously injured in the ongoing ground battles with the Palestinian Resistance in the center of the Gaza Strip.

Under the “permitted to publish” clause, occupation media announced that the dead officer was a medic with the reserves at the headquarters of the 99th Division in the occupation's army.

In the same battles, a soldier in the reserves' 7220 battalion was seriously injured.

With this announcement, the death toll of IOF soldiers has reached 520 since October 7, 180 of whom were killed since the start of the ground battles in the Gaza Strip.

They can't catch a break

Yesterday, the IOF announced the killing of 11 of its officers and soldiers in separate attacks by the Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip within 24 hours.

In parallel, the Martyr Izz-al Din al-Qassam Bridages, the military wing of the Hamas movement, claimed responsibility for operations in which its freedom fighters sniped four Israeli soldiers using the Al-Qassam's "Ghoul rifle", east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced that the Bridages had completely or partially destroyed 42 Israeli military vehicles and eliminated 22 Israeli soldiers, during the past week.

In turn, Abu Hamza, the military spokesman for Al-Quds Brigades, stressed in a speech that what is happening in the field is "far too great for the Resistance's cameras to document," affirming that the Palestinian Resistance has left great losses among the ranks of the Israeli army.