The Israeli armed said on Wednesday, August 20, after having killed a dozen Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip by pushing an attack against the Army branch of the Palestinian Islamist movement, which ensures that she has killed an indefinite number of Israeli soldiers.
According to Israeli media, it is an attack of an unprecedented scale against Israeli troops within the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war launched by the bloody attack of Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.
“Today, around 9 am (8 am French time), more than 15 terrorists left several mouths of a tunnel near an advanced position of the 90th battalion in southern Khan Younès” (south of the Gaza Strip), said an army statement.
Firearms fire and anti -tank missiles
The attackers “led a combined attack by firearms fire and anti -tank missiles in the direction of the post. Several of them who tried to infiltrate the post were eliminated in hand combat to manual and support air attacks.”
“A Tsahal soldier was seriously injured and two others were slightly injured” in the incident, according to the army, who claims to have killed “10 terrorists” in total and transmit images of their air attacks.
Eight other attackers could return to the tunnel. “The incident is still underway, and the troops continue their operations to locate and eliminate them,” added the army.
According to Don Kadoch, a journalist of the Israeli military radio, this is an “exceptional” attack since the beginning of the war.
Its objective was to eliminate the soldiers, while a proposal of agreement is on the table between Israel and Hamas for the launch of the hostages eliminated on October 7 and a high fire in the Palestinian territory, said channel 12 of Israeli television.
“A raid led this morning” by the fighters of Hamas
In a press release, the Ezzed Al-Qassam brigades, an armed branch of Hamas, reported “a raid led this morning” by their combatants “in a newly established enemy position in the southeast of Khan Younès,” said the text.
With the support of mortars, the combatants “assaulted the site and attacked several tanks (…) where the occupants (Israeli soldiers, an editor’s note) were rooted, explains the armed branch of Hamas, which claims to have fired” a car. “
She assures that one of her combatants “turned in the midst of the” Israeli soldiers “,” leaving them dead and injured “, without informing in their ranks.
Source: BFM TV
