BEIT HANOUN (PIC)– Three Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Monday including two Qassam fighters and a civilian in Israeli incursions and clashes while two IOF soldiers were reportedly killed in the confrontations.
The Hebrew radio admitted that one soldier was killed in southern Gaza while a second was killed in the northern area of Beit Hanoun describing the clashes in both areas as “fierce”.
PA health ministry sources said that two Qassam fighters were killed one south of the Strip and one in the north while a civilian called Farid Abu Oda was killed in the IOF shelling on Beit Hanoun which also wounded 21 others including three in serious conditions.
Local sources said that an IOF warplane fired at least one rocket at a group of Qassam fighters who were confronting the IOF soldiers’ incursion in Beit Hanoun and killed one of them while the others were injured.
They added that the IOF troops advanced into Beit Hanoun in 15 tanks and three bulldozers and bulldozed large areas of lands but were met with stiff resistance on the part of resistance fighters.
The Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas Movement affirmed that its fighters fired an RPG at a special IOF unit that was trying to open a hole in the fence of the agriculture college northeast of Beit Hanoun and blasted an anti-armored device in a tank in the same area.
It affirmed that the shell directly hit the soldiers and the IOF command acknowledged that one of the soldiers was killed.
The armed wing said that another RPG was fired at an IOF unit inside the college directly hitting the soldiers.
The IOF command also acknowledged that one of the soldiers was wounded during a raid into Ein Beit Al-Ma refugee camp near Nablus city in the West Bank.
Violent clashes took place between Palestinian resistance fighters and the invading troops where the armed wing of the PFLP declared responsibility for wounding the soldier.
