The Qassam Brigades said in two separate statements that "its fighters were able on Monday to raid a gathering of enemy soldiers and vehicles and engage them at point-blank range," noting that "the fighters killed and wounded soldiers in the vicinity of Sheikh Radwan Pool in Gaza City."
In another statement, Al-Qassam Brigades said its fighters targeted an Israeli tank yesterday afternoon, Monday, with two "Al-Yassin 105" shells near the "Al-Awnbashi Hassan" mosque in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
These operations come as part of the Palestinian resistance factions' response to Israeli efforts to reoccupy Gaza City and displace Palestinians from it, as part of the ongoing war of extermination in the Strip for two years.
On Monday, eyewitnesses reported that Israeli occupation forces advanced hundreds of meters north of the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in the city's southwestern axis, starting from the vicinity of the Dahdouh Junction on Street 8 and the vicinity of the university college, which they had reached in recent weeks.
Witnesses said that vehicles were seen parked around the Onbashi Hassan Mosque and the headquarters of the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs.
A soldier was killed
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Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army announced in a statement that an officer was killed during clashes in Gaza City yesterday.
The Times of Israel website explained that "according to a preliminary investigation conducted by the Israeli military, a Hamas operative fired an RPG at a tank during the ongoing attack in Gaza City on Monday, wounding the officer. He was taken to the hospital and later died of his wounds."
The website added that this officer "is the first to be killed in the new attack launched by the Israeli army against Hamas in Gaza City last week."
According to Israeli military data, 911 soldiers have been killed since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, including 465 in the ground battles in the Gaza Strip that began on the 27th of the same month.
The Israeli occupation army has continued its assault on Gaza City since August 11, in an operation later dubbed "Gideon Vehicles 2." This operation has included the demolition of homes using explosive robots, artillery shelling, indiscriminate shooting, forced displacement, and a ground incursion.
On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City, home to approximately one million Palestinians.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 65,382 martyrs and 166,985 wounded, most of them children and women, and a famine that has claimed the lives of 442 Palestinians, including 147 children.
