The Israeli army has confirmed that one soldier was killed and five others injured—some critically—after a military vehicle was ambushed in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
Israeli media reported that Palestinian fighters targeted a rescue force dispatched to the scene, resulting in the casualties. The wounded were airlifted by military helicopters to hospitals inside Israel.
Heavy fighting has been reported in multiple areas across northern Gaza as Palestinian resistance fighters continue to confront Israeli forces. The Israeli air force is conducting intense aerial bombardments throughout the region.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters executed a complex ambush targeting an Israeli force advancing in Jabal al-Sourani, east of al-Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City, leaving several soldiers dead or wounded.
Palestinian sources on the platform X stated that a resistance unit detonated an explosive device against an Israeli tank east of Gaza, followed by a direct hit using a guided missile.
Israeli military helicopters have been evacuating the wounded amid reports that one officer was killed and four others injured in the incident.
Elsewhere, Israeli airstrikes reportedly targeted an area sheltering displaced civilians in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Earlier in the day, Israeli media reported a “serious security incident” in Gaza, prompting emergency evacuations by air.
According to Gaza’s health authorities, 41 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in ongoing Israeli airstrikes, raising the death toll over the last 48 hours to 92 martyrs and 219 wounded—most of them women and children.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been committing what rights organisations describe as a U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza, resulting in over 167,000 Palestinian casualties, including more than 11,000 missing persons—with the majority being children and women.
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