Al-Quds Brigades inflict heavy casualties on Israeli occupation forces in Gaza

GAZA, Feb. 23 (YPA) – The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said it had inflicted casualties on Israeli military units in several ambushes in the advancement axis in central Khan Yunis.

“After the return of our fighters from the combat areas, they confirmed their killing and wounding of a Zionist infantry force during an ambush with machine guns and anti-personnel weapons in the axis of advance in central Khan Younis,” the al-Quds Brigades said in a statement on Friday.

Moreover, the group said in another statement that they bombarded Zionist enemy gatherings with standard 60-caliber mortar shells in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza.

Additionally, al-Quds Brigades’ fighters trapped a Zionist engineering force and a D9 bulldozer in a tight engineering ambush, during which they detonated several highly explosive “Thaqib” barrel bombs in the area of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis.

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