GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) -- Hamas says its fighters have killed at least 20 Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza Strip in just two days, where the Zionist regime presses on with a brutal campaign of death and destruction. 
In a statement, Hamas said its Qassam Brigades fighters “killed at least five occupation soldiers” on Monday. They killed 15 Zionist troops in the region on Sunday, it added.
The Israeli military announced Tuesday that four soldiers were killed in Jabaliya. The regime has a habit of declaring its multiple losses in different days. 
The resistance movement’s “qualitative operation … confirms once again the failure of the criminal Zionist entity to suppress and eradicate the Palestinian resistance, which continues to direct qualitative strikes against its terrorist soldiers,” Hamas said in a post on the Telegram channel.
“Our valiant resistance is waging a war of attrition with the criminal enemy, inflicting daily losses on its soldiers and vehicles, and all of [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s bets and dreams of achieving any of his goals are failing,” it said.
It pledged that Israel’s ongoing crimes and aggression against Gaza will be met with increased resistance and painful strikes, which will continue until the aggression ends and the regime fully withdraws from the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it “attacked a military target in the southern occupied lands using drones” early Tuesday.
The operation, it said, was carried out “in continuation of our approach to resisting the occupation, and in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women and the elderly.”
The group pledged to continue “striking the enemy’s strongholds with increasing intensity.”
On Tuesday, at least 11 civilians were killed and several more wounded after an Israeli air attack targeted an area north of Rafah in Gaza, Wafa news agency reported. 
Meanwhile, two Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli bombardment of a house in a neighborhood south of Gaza City.
Israel’s war on Gaza has martyred at least 43,665 people in the enclave since October 7, 2023, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. 
At least 103,076 Palestinians have been wounded since the war began, the ministry added. 
A total of 62 Palestinians were killed and 147 wounded over the past 24 hours.
An Israeli strike late Monday hit a makeshift cafeteria used by displaced people in Muwasi, the center of a “humanitarian zone” that Israel’s military declared earlier in the war.
At least 11 people were martyred, including two children, according to officials at Nasser Hospital, where the casualties were taken. Video from the scene showed men pulling bloodied wounded from among tables and chairs set up in the sand in an enclosure made of corrugated metal sheets.
In the southern city of Khan Younis, another 11 people were martyred in an Israeli airstrike on a three-wheeled vehicle with a trailer known as a tuk-tuk, according to the Nasser Hospital. Tuk-tuks are widely used as taxis in Gaza.
Strikes in central Gaza killed another nine people, including a woman and two children, according to Palestinian medical officials.
Jabaliya is the focus of a stepped-up Israeli aggression. Palestinian health officials say hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the area, though the true numbers are unknown as rescue workers are unable to reach buildings destroyed in strikes. Israel has ordered residents in the area to evacuate. But the UN has estimated some 70,000 people remain.
Many Palestinians there fear Israel aims to permanently depopulate the area to more easily keep control of it. On Tuesday, witnesses told The Associated Press that Israeli troops had encircled at least three schools in Beit Hanoun, forcing hundreds of displaced people sheltering inside to leave.
Drones blared announcements demanding people move south to Gaza City, said Mahmoud al-Kafarnah, speaking from one of the schools as sounds of gunfire could be heard. “The tanks are outside,” he said. “We don’t know where to go.”
Hashim Afanah, sheltering with at least 20 other people in his family home, said the forces were evicting people from houses and shelters.