Earlier today, Zionist occupation forces (IOF) acknowledged that 10 soldiers were killed, most of whom were officers, in battles in northern Gaza yesterday.
IOF spokesperson announced the death of 6 officers:
- Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg, 35, the commander of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion.
- Col. Itzhak Ben Basat, 44, head of the Golani Brigade’s commander’s team, former head of the Yiftah Brigade.
- Maj. Roei Meldasi, 23, a company commander in the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion.
- Maj. Moshe Avram Bar On, 23, a company commander in the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion.
- Cpt. Liel Hayo, 22, a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion.
- Maj. Ben Shelly, 26, a squad commander in the ‘Israeli’ Air Force’s Unit 669.
As for the dead soldiers, they include First Class Sergeant Rom Hecht, 20, of the ‘Israeli’ Air Force’s Unit 669, Staff Sgt. Oriya Yaakov, 19, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 614th Battalion, Sgt. Achia Daskal, 19, a soldier in the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion, and Sgt. Eran Aloni, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion.
The IOF spokesperson also reported critical injuries.
Zionist media reported that the officers and soldiers were slain during confrontations in al-Shujaiya neighborhood.
The Resistance had executed a meticulously planned compound operation.
According to a Haaretz report, in al-Shujaiyya, the Resistance had engaged in fierce combat with a Golani force drawing them into a booby-trapped building, detonating it and taking out several soldiers in the bombing. Several soldiers were wounded and contact was lost with others in the first attack, Haaretz reported.
Reinforcements then arrived at the site covered by the occupation Air Force and artillery. By then, another explosive was detonated at the site taking out the second team.
A third team was dispatched to a search-and-rescue mission for the disconnected soldier, but they too fell to injuries in the fighting.
This recent operation brings the total number of occupation soldiers killed since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza to 115, according to Zionist accounts which are notoriously inaccurate.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wing, al-Quds Brigades, engaged Wednesday in close-quarter combat with occupation forces attempting to invade Gaza through the Western direction, inflicting major casualties on the latter.
A joint force of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Resistance movement, and the al-Aqsa Brigades ambushed an occupation force in the Gaza Strip.
According to the al-Quds Brigades, the joint unit ambushed 15 Israeli soldiers and engaged them, liquidating most of them and injuring the rest.
The PIJ’s military wing also said that its soldiers fiercely confronted occupation forces in the advance axes in Gaza City. Elsewhere in Gaza City, the Resistance destroyed two Zionist infantry fighting vehicles using Tandem RPGs.
The al-Quds Brigades also attacked occupation positions in Juhr al-Dik and “Netzarim” using high-caliber mortar shells.
The al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, meanwhile, said its fighters are engaged in fierce confrontations in the Zionist axes of advance in the Zaytoun and Shujaiyah neighborhoods in east Gaza.
The al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades added that they had detonated an IED in an occupation infantry fighting vehicle, causing casualties among enemy soldiers east of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza.
The al-Qassam Brigades also made an announcement saying that it bombed a field command room in the southern direction of Gaza City with heavy-caliber mortar and artillery shells.
Moreover, they said their forces bombed occupied Asdud with a garage of rockets in response to the Israeli occupation’s massacres against civilians.
The Mujahideen Brigades attacked the “Ra’im” base, east of the Gaza Strip, the headquarters of the ‘Israeli’ Gaza Division, with a barrage of rockets.
As for the northern Gaza Strip, al-Qassam said it attacked a Zionist D9 bulldozer using a Yassin-105 anti-tank RPG in Tel al-Zaatar.
In the southern Gaza Strip, al-Qassam destroyed 3 Merkava tanks east of the city of Khan Yunis, using the Yassin-105 RPG and the notorious Shawaz IEDs.
The al-Qassam Brigades nearly completely destroyed Zionist forces attempting to penetrate a street in Khan Yunis twice in a row.
The al-Qassam mujahideen were also able to completely destroy a Zionist troop carrier east of the city of Khan Yunis using a P29 shell.
Meanwhile, al-Quds Brigades announced targeted a gathering of soldiers in the vicinity of the al-Thilal Mosque along the eastern axis in Khan Younis with a barrage of 60mm mortar shells.
Al-Quds Brigades fighters were also engaged in fierce confrontation with occupation soldiers in al-Zaytun neighborhood, east of Gaza, where they targeted two military vehicles with Tandem charges.
The group also targeted three military vehicles and an armored personnel carrier with Tandem charges and point-blank IEDs in the Jabalia camp and the Tawam area, north of Gaza.
Al-Quds Brigades also announced targeting gatherings of soldiers with rockets and mortar shells in the vicinity of the al-Mahatta area in Khan Younis.
The fighters also engaged an infantry force from point-blank range in the al-Shujaiya neighborhood, leading to the death and injury of its members.
Al-Quds Brigades also announced a joint operation with al-Qassam, whereby together they ambushed a unit of 15 Israeli soldiers, in the al-Mughraqa area, leading to their death and injury.
Furthermore, the group’s Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Tandem charge in the al-Shujaiya axis, setting it aflame. They engaged in fierce confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in al-Shujaiya, inflicting confirmed injuries among the occupation soldiers.
On its part, al-Mujahideen Brigades announced that its fighters in the northern Gaza brigade engaged in fierce and violent confrontations with occupation soldiers and vehicles along the Jabalia axis.
Meanwhile, alarm sirens were repeatedly reported to be sounding in the Gaza Envelope settlements.