GAZA, June 30 (YPA) – Palestine’s resistance have been continued its operations against the occupying forces advancing into the Gaza Strip, inflicting losses the Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in joint ambushes by the Brigades of the Qassam and the Al-Quds.
In new military developments, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, declared on Monday an Israeli D9 bulldozer was destroyed with a highly explosive barrel bomb in the Abasan al-Kabira area east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
In the same area, in a joint operation with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, an Israeli Merkava tank was destroyed by a Thaqib side-improvised explosive device.
Additionally, Al-Qassam Brigades also targeted a D9 military bulldozer with a Yassin 105 missile, setting it on fire in the Al-Shahlat area of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The enemy’s gatherings in the Ma’an area, south of Khan Yunis, also were pounded with mortar shells, according to a statement by the Al-Qassam.
According to the latest figures acknowledged by the occupation, the number of Israeli soldiers killed has risen to 30 since the resumption of the war last March.
The total number of acknowledged Israeli soldiers, who have been killed since the start of the ground assault on the Gaza Strip, has reached 438.
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