GAZA CITY, Palestine

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, announced on late Sunday that it killed a number of Israeli soldiers and destroyed 29 Israeli military vehicles in several areas in the Gaza Strip.

The brigades, in a statement on Telegram, said that its fighters on Sunday killed and wounded Zionist forces holed up inside a building in Juhor ad-Dik, a neighborhood in Gaza City, after targeting it with two anti-fortification and anti-individual TBG shells and clashing with them with machine guns.

The statement added: "29 Zionist vehicles were completely or partially destroyed in all areas of the incursion into the Gaza Strip."

In another statement on Sunday evening, the brigades stated it targeted Israeli vehicles in southern Gaza with rockets.

The group also said it targeted the Tzeelim military base in the Negev Desert with a rocket salvo.

Earlier on Sunday, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that it killed six Israeli soldiers in the Juhor ad-Dik neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City.

Since Israel started bombarding Gaza on Oct. 7, at least 13,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 9,000 women and children, and more than 30,000 others have been injured, according to the latest figures.


Thousands of buildings, including hospitals, mosques and churches, have also been damaged or destroyed in Israel’s relentless air and ground attacks on the besieged enclave.

An Israeli blockade has also cut Gaza off from fuel, electricity and water supplies, and reduced aid deliveries to a small trickle.

The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, is around 1,200, according to official figures.