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One Israeli soldier was killed and five others were wounded in three resistance operations in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday. The Israeli army later confirmed the death of another soldier, the Hebrew media reported.
The soldier, a member of the Egoz Unit was killed in a sniper attack in the Gaza Strip while four soldiers were seriously wounded when an explosive device exploded targeting a tank in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army also confirmed that another soldier, a sergeant from the 82nd Armored Battalion, was killed in battles north of the Gaza Strip. A tank commander and an armored corps soldier were also seriously wounded in the same operation.
An Egoz soldier was seriously wounded in a separate operation north of the Gaza Strip.
Some Israeli news outlets reported that several soldiers were wounded by RPG rockets, while military censorship still prevents publication and disclosure of the other two locations.
Earlier, the Israeli media reported the killing and wounding of soldiers today in “two difficult security incidents” in Gaza. Meanwhile, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced it had carried out a complex operation Wednesday morning targeting dozens of soldiers in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood.
Complex Ambush
According to the details provided by the Brigades, dozens of soldiers and a convoy of occupation vehicles were targeted in the “Al-Huda Square,” east of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip. The Brigades explained that the complex operation began with the detonation of a minefield by the invading vehicles, forcing soldiers and officers to frantically enter nearby houses.
It indicated that its fighters targeted the forces entrenched inside the houses with a guided missile, followed by an anti-fortification “TPG” shell. They then engaged them at very close range with light and medium weapons, killing and wounding the crews of the vehicles, as well as the targeted officers and soldiers.
In the same context, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced it had targeted a Merkava tank, Tuesday, with an explosive device on an enemy supply line in the al-Zana area east of Khan Yunis.
Regarding the resistance’s operational mechanism and the heavy losses inflicted on the occupation over the past period, the Hadashot Bezaman news website reported that the resistance “penetrated the modus operandi” and movements of the occupation army in Gaza, enabling it to “violently strike soldiers and armored forces on the firing range.”
According to military analysts, the resistance is carrying out precise attrition operations against occupation forces at their positions inside the Gaza Strip, contributing to the fragmentation of the occupation’s combat capabilities and maintaining a constant state of depletion without a clear line of contact.
