Eleven Zionist Troops Killed, Injured in Hamas Op

Date: 17 December 2024 - 22:12

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GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) -- Hamas’ military wing the
Al-Qassam Brigades said Tuesday its fighters detonated a booby-trapped house targeting an Israeli force in the middle of Jabalia refugee camp, killing and wounding 11 soldiers.
The attack occurred in central Jabalia, an area that has faced intensified Zionist military operations in recent days.
Over 13,500 soldiers and officers have been wounded during Israel’s war on Gaza, with about 1,500 of them sustaining injuries on two separate occasions, the Israeli war ministry’s department of rehabilitation said.
The report said 287 soldiers suffered head injuries, 87 of which are categorized as severe, and 10 soldiers are now confined to wheelchairs as a result of their wounds.
Additionally, the ministry stated that 37 percent of the injured personnel sustained limb injuries, with the majority being bone fractures.
Mental health challenges have also emerged as a significant concern, affecting approximately 5,200 soldiers. Of these, 3,350 are dealing with anxiety, depression, and adjustment difficulties, while 1,300 have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
The figures underscore the heavy toll the war has taken on the physical and mental well-being of the Zionist regime’s military personnel.
The statement from Al-Qassam comes amid ongoing Israeli assaults on Gaza, which have drawn widespread condemnation for targeting densely populated civilian areas and causing large-scale destruction.
On Tuesday, Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip martyred at least 14 Palestinians, at least 10 of them in one house in Gaza City as tanks pushed deeper towards the western area of Rafah in the south.
Medics said the Israeli airstrike on the house in the Daraj suburb of Gaza City destroyed the building and damaged nearby houses. Four other people were killed in two separate airstrikes in the city and the town of Beit Lahiya north of the enclave said medics, medics added.
In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, Israeli tanks pushed deeper towards the western area of Mawasi, known as a humanitarian-designated area, residents said.
The Palestinian health ministry said at least 45,059 people have been martyred during Israel’s war on Gaza, including 31 deaths in the past 24 hours.
The ministry added that 107,041 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. More than 10,000 are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
The Israeli military’s deliberate and highly organized destruction of entire Palestinian cities and neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip is a clear manifestation of the genocide that the occupation state has been committing in Gaza for the past 14 months, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in an online statement released Tuesday.
This urbicide, the monitor said, is a primary tool for the implementation of the ongoing genocide.
“This crime has not been confined to the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians or the gradual decimation of two million people’s basic survival elements,” said the rights group. “It has extended to the complete annihilation of Palestinian cities, obliterating their architectural and civilizational fabric.”
This systematic destruction, it said, aims to erase the Palestinian national and cultural identity, impose permanent forced displacement, prevent the return of the people, dismantle communities and eradicate their collective memory.
“It is a deliberate attempt to eliminate their physical and human existence while destroying their past, present, and future.”