Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, said on Monday morning that they had clashed with Israeli troops east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing two soldiers and wounding another.
The brigades said in a brief statement that the Israeli Occupation Forces had attacked Jabalya by land and that the alestinian resistance responded firing six mortars at troops and using light and medium weapons. Clashes between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli army are still ongoing at the moment of reporting.
Middle East Monitor reports that according to Hamas at least 91 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the launch of a deadly Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. In this morning’s statement, the al-Qassam said that its fighters had killed 91 Israeli officers and soldiers in battles in the Gaza Strip.
According to the statement, hundreds of Israeli soldiers have also been injured in the Palestinian territory.
Israeli authorities, on the other hand, say that 43 soldiers and three civilians have been killed since July 7 when Israel launched a military offensive in the Gaza Strip with the stated aim of halting rocket fire.
The Israeli offensive – codenamed “Protective Edge” – is the self-proclaimed Jewish state’s third major offensive against the densely populated Gaza Strip – home to 1.8 million Palestinians – within the last six years.