The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, has claimed that it has repelled an Israeli ground attack near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, destroying an Israeli tank and two bulldozers, Al Jazeera reported.
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, has claimed that it has repelled an Israeli ground attack near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, destroying an Israeli tank and two bulldozers, Al Jazeera reported.
In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, the group said that its “fighters engaged an armored Israeli force in a well-prepared ambush to the east of Khan Yunis, just moments after it crossed the border by a few meters.”
The statement added: “The fighters bravely engaged with the infiltrating force … and they returned to their bases safely.”
Israeli soldiers purportedly ran back to Israel after attempting to fix separation fence with Gaza
About an hour ago, Israeli forces tried to get into the Gaza Strip in order to fix the separation fence between Gaza and Israel.
After they entered the strip, they fell into a trap made by the Palestinians. This military ambush was hard for the Israelis. They came directly under the Palestinian fighters’ fire – an attack that was critical, according to Israeli forces.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army in a statement said that armed Palestinians had “opened fire on troops operating on the western side of the Gaza Strip border fence” and one of their tanks shelled the cell.
Scores of Palestinians were killed in central Gaza on Sunday after Israel stepped up its strikes on the war-torn enclave and another convoy of 17 aid trucks arrived as the Hamas-run territory faces “catastrophic” shortages.
With the violence raging unchecked, Iran said the region could spiral “out of control” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stark warning to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying getting involved would be “the mistake of its life”.
Meanwhile, a second convoy of 17 trucks of aid entered Gaza from Egypt on Sunday following an initial delivery of 20 trucks on Saturday after intensive negotiations and US pressure.
Separately, an AFP journalist saw six trucks leaving Rafah after filling up from dwindling fuel stocks held at the crossing as the enclave faces catastrophic shortages after Israel cut off supplies of food, water, fuel and electricity, although it later resumed water supplies to the south on October 15.
The first fuel trucks since war erupted between Gaza militants Hamas and Israel entered the Palestinian enclave Sunday, an official at the Rafah crossing and an AFP journalist said.
Six trucks with fuel to power generators at two hospitals crossed from Egypt, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and an Egyptian source told AFP.
Hezbollah will make “the mistake of its life” if it starts a war with Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
The Lebanese Islamist movement “will make the mistake of its life. We will strike it with a force it cannot even imagine, and the significance for it and the state of Lebanon will be devastating,” Netanyahu said on a visit to troops in northern Israel near the Lebanon border.
China believes “force is not a way to resolve” the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is once again calling for a ceasefire, its envoy for the Middle East pleaded in Egypt, the foreign ministry said Sunday.
Egypt on Saturday hosted a “summit for peace” where UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for swift “action to end this godawful nightmare” after two weeks of war between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas.
Beijing’s envoy for the Middle East, Zhai Jun, met Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit on the sidelines of the summit.
The Chinese diplomat called for an “immediate ceasefire and an end to the fighting as quickly as possible”, his ministry said in a statement.
“China believes that force is not a way to resolve the problem and that responding to violence with violence will only lead to a vicious circle of revenge,” Zhai said according to the statement, which mentioned neither Israel nor Hamas.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas is facing growing anger on the streets of the occupied West Bank as Israel wages its war against Hamas in Gaza.
The 88-year-old leader is seen as out of touch with the increasing desperation of the Palestinian people and Israel’s furious response to the October 7 attacks by Hamas has only exacerbated their discontent.
After a rocket strike on a Gaza hospital this week caused fresh outrage, hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in a rare demonstration shouting “Abbas step down!” before being dispersed by security forces.
Abbas has led the Palestinian Authority (PA) for 18 years but has only limited authority over the West Bank and none over Gaza where the authority was violently ousted by Hamas in 2007.
On the world stage, Abbas has clung to the unrealised promises of the 1993 Oslo Accords.
The PA was meant to be a first step toward an independent Palestinian state, but negotiations have been at a standstill for more than a decade.
