GAZA, Jan. 08 (YPA) – The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, announced on Sunday that their fighters had bombed Israeli settlements in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, while the Qassam Brigades said their fighters blew up a minefield in 7 Israeli soldiers.
“ At 9:00 of Al-Bahaa time on Sunday night, we bombed “Sderot,” “Nir Am,” and settlements of the Gaza envelope with a heavy rocket barrage,” Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement.
We bombed a gathering of Zionist enemy soldiers and vehicles with a barrage of 60-caliber standard mortar shells in the Al-Katiba area in central Khan Younis, the statement read.
Meanwhile, the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said their fighters “blew up two tunnels in the occupation soldiers and a minefield in an infantry force of seven soldiers.”
“After their return from the combat lines east of Al-Bureij, our fighters confirmed causing deaths and injuries among the soldiers of the occupation, following the targeting of two Zionist Merkava tanks and a military bulldozer with Al-Yassin 105 shells. They also detonated two tunnels in the occupation soldiers and a minefield in an infantry force consisting of 7 soldiers,” al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement.
Al-Qassam Brigades bombarded enemy gatherings infiltrating the Al-Mahatta area in the city of Khan Younis with mortar shells, according to the statement.
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