Watan-The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced today, Saturday, the execution of several qualitative operations, resulting in the killing of no fewer than 14 Israeli soldiers in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Telegram, Al-Qassam said: “Al-Qassam fighters managed to target 3 Zionist tanks of the Merkava type with Yassin 105 shells. As soon as the rescue forces advanced to the location and reached the center of a pre-prepared minefield, they were targeted with the explosion of 3 anti-personnel mines.”<\/p>\n
The statement continued: “Our fighters confirmed the killing of 6 Zionist soldiers, turning them into shreds, and injuring another, and the event is still ongoing at the moment in the Zanna area east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.”<\/p>\n
Later, Al-Qassam said in a follow-up statement: “Our fighters targeted again the rescue forces and soldiers who fled the scene and took refuge in one of the houses surrounding the area of the incident with an anti-personnel mine. Our fighters confirmed the killing of 3 Zionist soldiers, turning them into shreds, and injuring another.”<\/p>\n
In another operation, it mentioned that after its fighters returned from the front lines, they targeted 5 Zionist soldiers from point-blank range and injured others and destroyed an Israeli armored vehicle with a “Tandem” shell in the Hope neighborhood west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
The Al-Qassam fighters also confirmed, after returning from the front lines, targeting a Zionist tank of the “Merkava” type with a “Yassin 105” shell and targeting an Israeli infantry force with an anti-personnel mine, resulting in casualties among them and the helicopter landing to evacuate them in the Hope neighborhood in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
In a fourth operation, the Al-Qassam fighters confirmed, after returning from the front lines, the destruction of an Israeli tank of the “Merkava” type with a martyrdom operation in the Hope neighborhood west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n