The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that they inflicted casualties among an Israeli force by detonating a minefield east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The group added that it targeted the area with mortar shells.
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The Brigades reported observing the evacuation of a destroyed military vehicle and the landing of helicopters to evacuate casualties from the site of the Israeli force attack.
According to data from the Israeli military, 854 officers and soldiers have been killed since the war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, including 413 in ground battles.
Additionally, 5,846 officers and soldiers have been injured, including 2,641 in ground operations. These figures cover casualties in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and inside Israel, but exclude police and intelligence personnel.
Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza continue to announce and document their operations against Israeli soldiers and vehicles across various fronts, using mortar attacks, sniping, and ambushes.
New Massacres
In other developments, medical sources reported that 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli airstrike on a restaurant in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that 40 Palestinians were killed and others injured in new massacres committed by the Israeli army since dawn Wednesday. These attacks targeted a shelter center, a camp for displaced people, and homes in different areas across the Gaza Strip.
Sixteen Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli strike on Al-Karama School, which was housing displaced families in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Several people remain missing under the rubble.
This massacre is the second in two days. Last night, Israel committed two consecutive massacres by bombing a school sheltering displaced people in Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing 31 Palestinians and injuring dozens.
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, eight Palestinians, including a child, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Qidra family's home. A Palestinian and his wife were also killed when their home in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, was targeted.
In central Gaza, three Palestinians — including a child — were killed in an Israeli strike on Al-Manasrah displacement camp, east of Deir al-Balah, according to a medical source. Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli army continued demolishing residential homes in the northern part of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
In northern Gaza, a medical source reported that three Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Tel Al-Zaatar, east of Jabalia refugee camp.
Israeli warplanes also carried out two more airstrikes in different areas in northern Gaza.
Supported by the United States, Israel has been committing acts of genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving over 171,000 Palestinians killed or injured — most of them women and children — and more than 11,000 missing.
