GAZA, May 18 (YPA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced on Saturday that it had killed 15 Israeli soldiers after targeting a house in which a large number of enemy soldiers were holed up, east of Rafah in the besieged southern Gaza Strip.
The brigades explained in a statement that the fighters were able to kill 15 Israeli soldiers after a Qassam group targeted a house in which a large number of soldiers were barricaded with a “thunder” anti-personnel device in Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam reported that the Mujahideen stormed the house and clashed with the remaining soldiers from a distance of zero with machine guns and grenades.
In a separate statement, Al-Qassam Brigades announced targeting the occupation forces located inside the Rafah land crossing in the south of the Gaza Strip with mortar shells and destroyed a “Merkava 4” tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in Al-Tanour neighborhood.