GAZA: Israeli military has confirmed the killing of Eight Israeli soldiers southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
The soldiers, all members of a combat engineering unit, were in an armored carrier that was hit by an explosion that detonated. The military said the early morning incident was being investigated in the Tel al-Sultan area west of Rafah.
Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, said in a statement its soldiers “carried out a complex ambush against enemy vehicles” in the Saudi neighborhood of Tal as-Sultan district, western Rafah city.
The armed group said it fired Yassin-105 RPGs at a D9 military bulldozer, killing and wounding an unidentified number of Israeli soldiers. A “rescue force” vehicle that later arrived was also attacked, “resulting in its destruction and the death of all its occupants”.
The attacks on Saturday marked one of the deadliest days for Israeli soldiers in Gaza in months as its ground invasion of the southern region continues to ramp up.
