Al-Qassam announces the detonation of an explosive device with 15 Israeli soldiers and the destruction of 3 tanks

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it had detonated an explosive device against an Israeli force of 15 soldiers west of the Jabalia camp and targeted 3 tanks in the cities of Gaza and Rafah, while the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that it had detonated an occupation vehicle that had penetrated northern Gaza by targeting it with a highly explosive "Thaqib" barrel bomb.

Al-Qassam Brigades explained that its fighters detonated a highly explosive device at "a Zionist infantry force of 15 soldiers while it was trying to storm a house, killing and wounding its members," near the communications junction west of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al-Qassam announced that its fighters targeted a Merkava tank with a "Yassin 105" shell in the "Tawam" area north of Gaza City, in addition to targeting an armored personnel carrier near the Al-Khazindar station northwest of Gaza City.

The Military Media Office of the Al-Qassam Brigades also published video footage showing the detonation of a booby-trapped tunnel shaft on an Israeli engineering force in the Al-Rayyan area, east of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Urgent | Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast footage of the detonation of a booby-trapped tunnel shaft at a Zionist engineering force in the Al-Rayyan area east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/Tb3qGRDEIf

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Al-Qassam Brigades explained that it targeted two Merkava tanks and a D9 military bulldozer with 105 Al-Yassin shells in the Al-Janina neighborhood in eastern Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and that it monitored the occupation helicopters evacuating the soldiers after targeting them there.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades announced the detonation of an Israeli military vehicle that had penetrated the "Al-Saftawi" area in the northern Gaza Strip, targeting it with a highly explosive "Thaqib" barrel bomb.

The Al-Quds Brigades said that it "destroyed an Israeli troop carrier that had penetrated the Al-Tawam junction in northern Gaza by detonating a pre-planted explosive device," in addition to shelling a gathering of Israeli vehicles and forces east of Jabalia with mortars.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also broadcast footage of its fighters, in cooperation with the Martyr Abdul Qader Al-Husseini Brigades, bombing the command and control site in the Civil Administration east of Jabalia camp with a guided 107 missile.

According to the Anatolia Agency, the Israeli army has not yet issued any comment regarding what was stated in the statements of the Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades, at a time when it continues its destructive war on the Gaza Strip for the 372nd day, leaving tens of thousands of civilians dead and wounded amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic and a worsening famine looming over this besieged Strip.

Source: Agencies