Fierce ground battles continues in Gaza amid telecommunications blackout
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli occupation troops are engaged in a fierce battle in the Gaza Strip as the illegal entity expands its ground offensive and cuts communications to the besieged area.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said in a statement that it was fighting Israeli forces in two areas inside the Gaza Strip early on Saturday as the Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza entered its 22nd day.
“We are confronting an Israeli ground incursion in Beit Hanoun (in the northern Gaza Strip) and east Bureij (in the center) and violent engagements are taking place on the ground,” the statement said.
The Israeli military claimed that its fighter jets had struck 150 “underground targets” in northern Gaza and killed “several” Hamas fighters during intense overnight raids. The occupation military said the targeted sites included “tunnels, underground combat spaces and additional underground infrastructure.”
The regime has been waging a relentless war against Gaza since October 7, when Hamas and its fellow Gaza-based resistance movement of the Islamic Jihad launched their biggest operation against the occupying entity in years. The surprise Palestinian offensive, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, came in response to the regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
The death toll in Gaza since the start of Israeli aggression has reached over 7,400 — more than 3,000 of them children — with upwards of 20,500 wounded.
