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Qassam Brigades: Over 10 Israeli troops killed in north Gaza within 72 hours

Monday, 13 January 2025 3:18 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 13 January 2025 3:23 PM ]

Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement

The Ezzedine Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, says Palestinian fighters have killed roughly a dozen Israeli troops as a result of retaliatory operations in the northern Gaza Strip over the past 72 hours.

“After more than 100 days of comprehensive destruction and genocide carried out by the Israeli enemy army in the northern Gaza Strip, our fighters continue to inflict heavy losses and deal significant blows. Over 10 Israeli soldiers have been killed and dozens more injured as a result,” Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, said in a statement on Monday.

He emphasized that the true extent of losses within the ranks of the Israeli military is much greater than what it has already announced.

Abu Obeida noted that Israeli military forces will eventually withdraw from the northern Gaza Strip in disgrace, stressing that the occupation forces have been unable to break the resistance front in the coastal territory.

“The sole achievement that the Israeli army occupation army has obtained is destruction, devastation and massacres against innocent people,” the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades stated.

Jan. 12: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation

Amid Israeli genocide in Gaza, Palestinian and regional resistance groups continued their operations against the regime and its Western backers on Sunday, January 12.

Since early October 2024, the Israeli army has been waging a large-scale ground offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, which it claims aims to prevent Hamas from reorganizing its ranks in the area.

This is while the Palestinians say the military campaign is meant to forcibly displace them from their areas, and restore illegal settlement to the Strip.

The Israeli army has killed at least 5,000 Palestinians during its ongoing onslaught in the northern Gaza Strip.

Backed by the United States and its Western allies, Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Israeli regime in response to its decades-long campaign of oppression against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 46,584 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 109,731 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

On November 21 last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its deadly war on the blockaded coastal sliver.

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