The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it killed Israeli soldiers and destroyed vehicles during the ongoing battles with the occupation forces in Gaza, and bombed Tel Aviv and other Israeli areas in response to the massacres committed against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
The Qassam Brigades said it fought fierce clashes in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday that killed Israeli soldiers.
The battalions added – in a series of statements through its platform in Telegram – that its fighters destroyed a tank penetrating northwest of Gaza City, two tanks in Tal al-Hawa (south of Gaza City), and 3 tanks in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, and indicated that it destroyed most of those tanks by shells "Yassin 105".
According to al-Aqsa TV, which is close to Hamas, al-Qassam Brigades fighters have destroyed 12 Israeli vehicles, including tanks, since dawn on Sunday.
Fox News correspondent accompanying the occupation army: "They were just ambushed and lost more than twenty of their soldiers." 20 in one ambush. A testimony confirming what observers say that the deaths of the occupation army are many times what is announced #Gaza_cemetery_of_the_invaders pic.twitter.com/FYkOiPtKzy
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A video clip circulated on social media of a journalist in the American network "Fox News" in which he says that the Israeli army was ambushed in the Gaza Strip in which 20 of its soldiers were killed.
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that the death toll in Gaza in less than a week had risen to 30.
Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, has previously confirmed that the number of Israeli deaths in the Gaza Strip is much higher than announced.
The Palestinian resistance clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in axes, most notably Beit Hanoun in the northwest and southwest of Gaza and east of Khan Yunis.
#الجزيرة_مباشر verification team: Iron Dome rocket landed on Rishon Lezion area in southern #تل_أبيب pic.twitter.com/lIVySvo354
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Missile strikes
Meanwhile, the Qassam Brigades announced that it bombarded Tel Aviv with several rockets on Sunday evening in response to the massacres committed by the occupation army in Gaza.
Israeli Army Radio reported that rockets landed in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva.
Al-Jazeera's correspondent quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the Iron Dome system intercepted a number of rockets without the Israeli ambulance reporting any injuries.
Video footage showed an Iron Dome rocket falling on the city of Rishon Lezion, south of Tel Aviv.
The al-Qassam Brigades also announced that it had targeted the Ra'im military base with rockets with a rocket barrage, and sirens sounded in Beersheba and in Eshkol inside the Gaza envelope.
The Qassam Brigades had broadcast images showing the launch of a rocket barrage that it said targeted Israeli cities and towns in response to the occupation massacres in Gaza.