Watan-The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Saturday morning that they had killed 15 Israeli soldiers in a house they were barricaded in, in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a statement on their Telegram channel, which was followed by Watan, Al-Qassam said their fighters managed to eliminate 15 “Zionist” soldiers after a Qassam group targeted a house where a large number of soldiers had taken refuge with an anti-personnel “Ra’diyah” explosive device.
Afterward, the fighters stormed the house and clashed with the remaining soldiers at close range using light machine guns and hand grenades in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah, according to the Al-Qassam statement.
Before this, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced they had targeted a “Merkava 4” Israeli tank with a “Yassin 105” shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah.
#عاجل الخطاب الكامل
للناطق العسكري باسم كتائب القسام “أبو عبيدة” في اليوم الرابع والعشرين بعد المائتين من معركة #طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/4jWabY9wi3— بلال نزار ريان (@BelalNezar) May 17, 2024
Meanwhile, Al-Qassam shelled enemy forces stationed inside the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip with mortar shells.
On Friday, the military spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, “Abu Ubaida,” stated, “We are ready for a long war of attrition with the enemy,” confirming that the Israeli occupation army “is entering hell again and facing stronger resistance.”
الله أكبر ولله الحمد
“انتقاماً لدماء شهدائنا، وأرضنا وديننا وعرضنا.. نموت دون ذلك”.
عــاجــل | كتائب القسام تبث مشاهد من عملية قنص جندي صهيوني في محور التقدم شرق مدينة جباليا شمال قطاع غزة.#طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/v43JOGYOaP
— رضوان الأخرس (@rdooan) May 17, 2024
Abu Ubaida also announced that “our fighters managed to target 100 Zionist military vehicles within 10 days in the battlefronts in Gaza.”
He emphasized that the enemy in all its areas of incursion is counting its dead and wounded by the dozens and is almost constantly retrieving its soldiers.
الله أكبر
عــاجــل | كتائب القسام تبث مشاهد من استهداف لجنود وآليات الاحتلال شرق مدينة رفح جنوب قطاع غزة pic.twitter.com/mlAsfsmF9s
— رضوان الأخرس (@rdooan) May 17, 2024
He added, “The enemy announces only part of its losses, but what we observe is much greater.”
“والله #اتخزقوا“..
الله أكبر ولله الحمد
عــاجــل | كتائب القسام: مشاهد من استهداف دبابة ميركافاه وناقلة جند بقذائف “الياسين 105″، وإطلاق النار صوب عدد من جنود الاحتلال شرق مخيم جباليا pic.twitter.com/Vh4KrOkekJ
— رضوان الأخرس (@rdooan) May 17, 2024
On Friday, Al-Qassam also released several videos documenting special operations they carried out against the occupation army in the incursion areas in Jabalia camp and east of Rafah city.