Al-Qassam Brigades execute ambush on armored Zionist force in Rafah

GAZA, June 21 (YPA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced the carrying out of a carefully orchestrated ambush against an Israeli armored force in west of Rafa city, southern Gaza strip.

Al-Qassam fighters set up a tight ambush for an armored Zionist force and prepared a special explosive mine with a large explosive power, planted under its route after several days of surveillance on Al-Bahar Street south of Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah city, Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Thursday.

“When the force passed in the early minutes of this morning and a Merkava tank positioned over the mine, the fighters detonated it, destroying the tank—completely—and killing its crew. The operations to evacuate the remains of the dead soldiers and the tank’s wreckage lasted several hours,” the statement read.

Earlier in the day , Al-Qassam Brigades targeted two Zionist Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells in the Shaboura camp in Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.

@E.Y.M