Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Five Israeli soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded after coming under attack in the area of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip late on July 7, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
Four of the slain soldiers served in the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, while the fifth served in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade.
According to an initial IDF probe, the troops were hit by a bomb planted on the side of a road during a late night ground operation in Beit Hanoun. The troops were operating on foot and were not inside a vehicle. During attempts to extract the casualties, the forces came under fire.
Among the 14 other troops who were wounded in the daring attack in Beit Hanoun, two were reported to be in serious condition.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Gaza-ruling Hamas Movement, later claimed responsibility for the attack.
“The complex Beit Hanoun operation is an additional blow dealt by our valiant mujahideen to the prestige of the weak occupation army and its most criminal units, in an area the occupation had deemed safe after leaving no stone unturned,” the group spokesman Abu Obaida said in a post on Telegram.
“The battle of attrition our fighters are waging with the enemy from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip will inflict additional losses on it every day. While it recently miraculously succeeded in freeing its soldiers from hell, it may fail later, leaving us with additional prisoners,” he added.
The latest deaths brought the number of Israeli troops killed since the start of the large-scale offensive against the Hamas Movement in Gaza, codenamed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” to 30.
In total, Israel’s toll in ground operations in the Strip and along its border since the start of ground operations there has reached 449.
Israel launched Operation Gideon’s Chariots in May after calling up tens of thousands of reservists. The IDF said at the time that it wants to occupy 75 percent of Gaza in two months. As of July 4, at least 65 percent of the Strip had been captured, according to the military.
Once the operation is completed, more than two million Palestinians will be crammed in three isolated small zones in the southern, central and northern parts of the Strip.
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tak veru. zlý pre žida, no dobrý pre zvyšok sveta!!! svetu mier a mysleniu zdar!!!
the war has simultaneously revealed that the idf are cowards and easily killed like animals, and that they are a genocidal criminal organization the world has every reason to get rid of. iran needs to put troops inside israel because the israelis could easily all be shot like a bunch of turkeys
they dropped so many 2000lb and 500lb bombs, id wager its as likely they set off a dud walking around as opposed to being attacked by a dud tied to a remote detonator.
its like if a ss camp guard fell on the tracks, got ran over by a train…
work place irony? either way, nice start to my morning.
no, have you no clue? arabs are expert explosive specialists. and they have weapons and explosives. why is this so far-fetched for your tiny mind?
what?
your comment is so unfathomably stupid and disconnected from my comment that i can only assume its some bullshit zionist attempt to discredit the reality that you mindless fucks dropped enough bombs that the unexploded ones are being weaponized to great effect.
go choke on a red heffers balls.
to the contrary, so you’re saying that it’s not an ied. when it is! i am not a zionist, you idiot
both of your theories are possible. general rommel was using hyperbole (exaggeration) to make his point that the idf doesn’t care about civilian casualties.
i said it was an ied.
just intentionally by gazans… 👍
or simply unintentionally driving over an unexploded bomb. likely – if there was once a hospital nearby.
where the hell else would they get heavy explosives at this point?
a lot of the explosive is salvaged and scavenged from dud and demmick bombs supplied free by the jewsa. these are “return to sender” operations. shlomo hoist by his own petard. oy vey!
the cia stooges on here like to talk about the russians not winning fast enough. you never hear them say anything about the fact that israel still hasn’t captured an area a bit bigger than the state of delaware after two years. “hehehehehehe” as they like to say.
theyve been trying for almost 80 years. 😬
i agree with you but the gaza strip is 17 times smaller then the state of delaware.
it’s also taken a few trillion dollars from the united states to finance the fiasco as well.
ukraine nato war is happening because the jewish empire (aka the west) try to expend on russia. it’s the same empire with the same hidden masters.
literally the opposite of what actually happened. impressive.
lol. ok.
look at the map of nato when the infamous ‘not one inch eastward’ comment was made, and nato today.
you understand it’s touching russia now, right?
what everyone wants to know is… where did russia touch you? show us on a doll.
“show us on a doll” 🤣
jews try to prétend it started on octobre 7 when they persecuted, killed and harrassed palestiniens for decades. they do the same in ukraine : they prétend it started in 2022 and goyim have to forget the 2003 orange révolution and the 2014 coup and the dombass war….. they need dumb people without memory.
khazaria empire is today’s southern russia, so khazars do not need “expand into russia”, they were always in russia.
word “jews” was invented in 18th century, original word/name was khazars
stupid potato-juggling orcs have lost 300,000 in ukraine…heheheh…
does 4 dead pigs makes you angry. or was one of the pigs your partner in homosexuality? in both case you can do nothing and just keep watching your partners fall downs then come back and pour your anger in the form of comments, keep crying.
good news!, thats 19 less baby rapers!🥳
more dead zionist monsters is always good!
mighty israel almost two years after initiating a genocidal campaign against a small municipality defended by a bunch of guerrillas… and still losing. can we just salvage the racist colony and move on into peace and humanism?
more diapers required – urgently!