Hamas’ armed wing Qassam Brigades has said that they killed and wounded Israeli soldiers, destroyed military vehicles in Jabalia and Rafah and struck the Israeli city of Sderot, TRT World reports.

The Qassam said in a series of statements on Telegram that its fighters carried out joint operations with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.

They added that they managed to “engage with a special Zionist force entrenched behind the martyr Imad Akel Mosque, causing casualties among its members.”

They also said they succeeded in “targeting another force on al-Albani Street and managed to detonate a Merkava tank with an explosive device on al-Ajarma Street.”

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