JABALIA (PIC)– An Israeli special force killed a fighter of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades the armed wing of the PFLP called Rami Karim during fierce armed clashes with them east of Jabalia town northern Gaza Strip on Sunday while his fellow fighters managed to return to their bases safely according to the PIC reporter.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades claimed on the same day its responsibility for engaging with the Israeli special force in Gaza.
In a related context a group of the Salahuddin Brigades the armed wing of the popular resistance committees survived on Sunday an Israeli attempted assassination after an Israeli missile targeted their car in the Beit Hanun town while two Palestinian citizens present in the targeted scene were injured and transferred to a nearby hospital.
A field commander of the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas was assassinated by an Israeli air strike before midnight Saturday in Rafah southern Gaza Strip as he was walking in the Salam neighborhood. Separate Israeli air raids targeted a site belonging to the Qassam Brigades in Khan Younis and the house of Atiya Abu Nekira a prominent Qassam leader in the Shaboura refugee camp.
Palestinian medical sources announced Sunday that a Palestinian citizen called Saleh Nabhan who was in a state of clinical death at the Shifa medical complex died of serious wounds he sustained several days ago in an earlier Israeli air raid.
In another development Palestinian local sources told the PIC reporter that about 17 military armored vehicles advanced at late hour Sunday into east of Jabalia and the Tofah neighborhood eastern Gaza Strip amid random bombardment where the invading IOF troops were met with fierce resistance by Palestinian fighters spearheaded by the Qassam Brigades.
The sources said that the Israeli incursion was carried out following an Israeli air raid that targeted a group of Palestinian fighters in the Jabal Al-Rais in Jabalia without knowing the fate of this group yet.
In a communiqué received by the PIC the Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters engaged in fierce armed clashes with the invading IOF troops in the Tofah neighborhood the Nahal Oz area and east of Jabalia and fired 25 mortar shells two homemade short-range rockets and detonated an anti-personnel explosive device at them.
The armed wing added that its fierce attacks on the invading IOF troops caused chaos and panic in their ranks who found themselves stuck and unable to withdraw from the east of Jabalia.
In another context related to the Israeli unjust siege Palestinian medical sources announced Saturday evening the death of an elderly patient called Yousef Farwanah 69 in the Khan Younis city southern Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli ban imposed on the travel of Gaza patients to receive medical treatment abroad.
With the death of Farwanah the number of Palestinian patients who died as a result of the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza 8 months ago rose to 92 most of them women infants and children.
