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The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, announced on December 23 that its fighters had carried out a series of attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces in different parts of the Gaza Strip.
In the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Hamas fighters used two unexploded Israeli aerial bombs, each weighing a ton, to blow up a convoy of the IDF made up of five main battle tanks. Several Israeli troops were allegedly killed or wounded.
A fighter of Hamas also gunned down four Israeli troops from point blank during a battle in Jabalia’s al-Qasasib neighborhood.
Meanwhile in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, two vehicles of the IDF were targeted with rocket-propelled grenades and a soldier was shot by Hamas fighters.
In the central Gaza town of Juhor al-Dik, Hamas fighters ambushed a convoy of four Israeli military jeeps using several explosive devices. A tank that advanced towards the ambush area was also hit with rocket-propelled grenades. Later, IDF reinforcements were shelled with mortars and rockets. Many Israeli troops were allegedly killed in the ambush.
The fighters also targeted an infantry force that advanced in the town with an explosive device and blew up a tunnel shaft after it was approached by an Israeli special operations unit, allegedly killing or wounding many. Reinforcements dispatched by the IDF to the tunnel shaft were also targeted with mortars.
In the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, Hamas fighters lured five troops from the IDF’s elite Yahalom engineering unit to a booby-trapped tunnel shaft then blew it up.
The fighters also targeted an armored personnel carrier and two soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades during another battle in the city.
At least 139 Israeli troops have been killed since the start of ground operations in Gaza. More than 600 others have been reportedly wounded.
Separately, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades announced that it has lost contact with a unit that was guarding five Israeli captives, including three elderly men who were previously identified as Haim Perry, Yoram Metzger and Amiram Cooper. The group said that the hostages and their guards were most likely killed in an Israeli strike.
Some 132 hostages remain in Gaza out of the 240 taken during the October 7 surprise attack, which was planned and led by Hamas.
Hamas’ recent attacks and the growing risks to the remaining hostages in Gaza forced Israel to resume talks with the group earlier this month. However, the two sides are yet to reach an agreement. While the Israeli officials are offering a temporary ceasefire, Hamas officials insist that the war on the Strip should end and all Palestinians prisoners are released.
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hamas reports are like the russian ones: complete bs 😆😆😆
i never wrote that. 😆😆😆
hamas reports are like the russian ones: complete bs 😆😆😆
i never wrote that. 😆😆😆
153 soldats morts
wishful mad man
if the unexploded one ton bombs were being dropped on children the idf is receiving justice.
it is perfect karma when defective ‘us made bombs’ kill israeli soldiers!
yes, but globally these disgusting hook-nosed cunts called jews, are always hiding behind dozens of different camouflages. here to everyone, please take this eye-opening picture and show it to everybody to make the world realize the truth !! http://alturl.com/naqiw
the hostage amiram cooper is the spouse of nurit cooper who was one of the two elderly women released in october. she was calling on the israeli government to bring all of the remaining hostages safely home. netanyahu would rather save himself than the people he serves.
allah is fucked bad
by pedophiles blackmailed and controlled by israeli intelligence?
cry me a sheckel bitch.
imagine a pro palestine rally where the names of israelis slaughtered by the idf were read out…
imagine a pro palestinian rally where the names of every woman and child slaughtered by the idf were read out
jews were always the first victims of zionism
well, that’s basic of the truth indeed.
gaza will remain uninhabitable for 2000 years due to the stench of dead jewish nazis rotting in the ground
israel government is a blue eye hitler blood line including natayahu,stotelberg and biden