Al-Quds Brigades ambush Israeli forces in Khan Yunis as Gaza faces worsening humanitarian catastrophe
ALBAWABA- The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, announced on Thursday that it had killed and wounded several Israeli soldiers in a calculated ambush east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
According to the group, its fighters lured an Israeli mechanized engineering unit into a booby-trapped building, which was detonated upon entry.
As Israeli rescue forces arrived at the scene, they too were targeted by Palestinian fighters using anti-tank missiles, the group said. Footage circulating online shows an Israeli military helicopter evacuating casualties from the site.
The Israeli military confirmed that a tank commander was critically injured during operations in northern Gaza, while Channel 12 reported another soldier wounded in a grenade explosion in the south.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued to escalate their military operations, reportedly flattening an entire residential block near Al-Nazzaz Street in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
As the fighting intensifies, Gaza's humanitarian crisis continues to deepen. A joint statement from 80 countries, published by the French Foreign Ministry, warned that Gaza is enduring the "worst humanitarian catastrophe" since Israel launched its military offensive on October 7, 2023. The signatories expressed grave concern over the looming risk of famine.
The World Food Programme echoed the alarm, describing current aid deliveries as 'a drop in the ocean,' and emphasized the urgent need for safe and unrestricted humanitarian access to the besieged territory.
In the past 24 hours alone, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported 107 Palestinians killed and 247 wounded as a result of Israeli airstrikes across various parts of the Strip, describing the ongoing attacks as part of a campaign of genocide by Israeli forces.
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