Palestinian Resistance Strikes Painfully: 17 Israeli Soldiers Dead or Injured in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza
A new powerful blow was dealt by the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza Strip when 17 soldiers were either killed or injured in an ambush in Khan Younis.
In details, Israeli media outlets reported that 5 soldiers were dead and 12 others were wounded, including 2 in critical conditions, after the explosion of a booby-trapped building in which a force from the Maglan unit was located in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Zionist media indicated that helicopters evacuated the 12 injured soldiers to the hospitals, noting that another serious incident was taking place in the Strip.
An Israeli strike on Friday afternoon killed six Palestinians and injured others in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, according to WAFA news agency.
They said that an Israeli fighter jet targeted a house belonging to the Najjar family in Jabalia Al-Balad, claiming the lives of six and injuring others.
Earlier today, an Israeli combat drone targeted a charging point for cell phones between tents sheltering displaced people to the west of Khan Younis, claiming the lives of four and injuring others, at a time when Israeli occupation forces opened fire at an aid distribution center to the west of Rafah, claiming the lives of four.
'Israel' unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.
The death toll reached at least 4,402 with 13,489 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 70 dead Palestinians, including three bodies retrieved from the rubble, and 189 casualties were admitted to hospitals in the Strip, noting that these numbers exclude the fatalities and casualties in the northern Strip due to inaccessibility.
The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
'Israel' has waged a genocidal war on the Strip since October 2023, killing at least 54,677 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 125,530 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine's largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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