GAZA CITY (Agencies): Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced Thursday that its fighters targeted two Israeli military units in southern Gaza, killing and wounding soldiers, Anadolu reports.
The group said fighters struck an Israeli force of seven soldiers with a powerful explosive device near the Omar ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in the al-Tannour neighborhood in eastern Rafah.
The Brigades reported earlier that it targeted an Israeli engineering unit of 12 soldiers with two anti-personnel and anti-armor shells as the unit prepared to carry out a demolition operation inside a home near al-Fidai Junction in the same neighborhood.
The explosion inside the house caused multiple casualties, it said, and the group saw Israeli helicopters landing to evacuate the dead and wounded.
The announcement came shortly after al-Qassam said fighters were engaged in “intense close-quarters combat” with Israeli troops advancing into the al-Jeneina neighborhood in eastern Rafah.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced Thursday that its fighters targeted two Israeli military units in southern Gaza, killing and wounding soldiers, Anadolu reports.
The group said fighters struck an Israeli force of seven soldiers with a powerful explosive device near the Omar ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in the al-Tannour neighborhood in eastern Rafah.
The Brigades reported earlier that it targeted an Israeli engineering unit of 12 soldiers with two anti-personnel and anti-armor shells as the unit prepared to carry out a demolition operation inside a home near al-Fidai Junction in the same neighborhood.
The explosion inside the house caused multiple casualties, it said, and the group saw Israeli helicopters landing to evacuate the dead and wounded.
The announcement came shortly after al-Qassam said fighters were engaged in “intense close-quarters combat” with Israeli troops advancing into the al-Jeneina neighborhood in eastern Rafah.