GAZA (PIC)– Palestinian resistance fighters from the Qassam Brigades (QB) the armed wing of Hamas Movement have affirmed they ambushed and inflicted two Israeli casualties in a qualitative military attack on IOF troops sneaking into Rafah district south of Gaza Strip.
According to a military communiqué issued by the Brigades on Saturday and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC the QB fighters trapped an Israeli infantry unit attempting to sneak into Al-Nahda suburb west of the Rafah city and engaged its members in close-distance fierce armed clashes.
The QB statement further explained that one of the QB fighters decoyed the soldiers by pretending to surrender to them before his comrades suddenly appeared and attacked the soldiers leaving at least two of them dead. One QB fighter was wounded; but the group managed to withdraw before arrival of IOF military support.
Sources in the IOF command acknowledged the QB attack affirming that the IOF troops wounded a Palestinian fighter; but they didn’t acknowledge casualties in their lines.
On Friday night the QB announced firing four home-made 90mm mortar shells at IOF musters and Israeli infantry soldiers east of Jabalya city in northern Gaza Strip.
Earlier at dawn Friday the Brigades fighters blocked an IOF force attempting to infiltrate into the eastern part of Beit Hanon city north of Jabalya and fired seven locally-made Al-Yassin projectiles and one RPG at that force.
Five 90mm mortar rounds and seven 80mm mortar shells were also fired by the QB fighters at the Israeli-controlled Erez and Kissufim crossing points north and south of Gaza Strip respectively a statement issued by the QB affirmed.
The QB explained that the attacks were in retaliation to the IOF incessant aggressions on Palestinian citizens in the tiny Strip and the West Bank that reaped tens of Palestinian lives and wounded hundreds others in less than three weeks.
Two home-made rockets were also fired by the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades of the PRC at the Israeli controlled Kerem Shalom crossing point southeast of Gaza Strip at an early hour on Saturday.
