The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, said it has killed a number of Israeli soldiers and destroyed 29 Israeli military vehicles in several areas in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports.

In a statement on Telegram, it said its fighters killed and wounded “Zionist forces” holed up inside a building in Juhor ad-Dik after targeting it with “two anti-fortification and anti-individual TBG shells and clashing with them with machine guns”.

The statement added: “29 Zionist vehicles were completely or partially destroyed in all areas of the incursion into the Gaza Strip.”