Hamas on Sunday claimed that its fighters killed and wounded some Israeli soldiers who were trying to infiltrate Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip.
“Our fighters monitored a private Israeli force hiding inside a truck loaded with humanitarian aid … then the soldiers entered a local Palestinian house and hid inside it,” al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said in a press statement.
Al-Qassam said “our fighters clashed with the soldiers, attacking them with home-made shells, killing and wounding all of them.”
The Israeli army has not commented on the incident yet.
Israel has been waging a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 others were taken hostage.