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| Israeli soldier killed in Hamas attack, in first since Gaza ceasefire collapse | |
| 2025-04-20 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra slain, 5 others hurt in incident near Beit Hanoun, including 3 female troops; IDF: 150 targets hit, 40 operatives killed over weekend An Israeli soldier was killed and five others were wounded, including three seriously, in a Hamas attack in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon, the military announced. The slain soldier was named as Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, a tracker in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, from Rahat. He was the first soldier to be killed in Gaza since the Israel Defense Forces resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Strip on March 18. The deadly incident took place during operations of the 252nd Division near northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun. The division had been working to clear the area close to the border of Hamas infrastructure, including tunnels, as part of efforts to expand Israel’s buffer zone — which now comprises over 30 percent of the Strip. According to an initial IDF probe, at 12:58 p.m., a group of soldiers driving along an IDF logistics road, close to an army encampment inside Gaza, came under fire by Hamas operatives. The operatives, who had come out of a tunnel shaft, launched an RPG at the unarmored army vehicle. Three servicewomen, of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, were wounded in the RPG attack. Two of them, an officer and a combat medic, were listed in serious condition. A short while later, rescue forces led by the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade commander, Col. Omri Mashiah, reached the scene, along with trackers from the brigade. At 1:25 p.m., according to the probe, the Hamas operatives set off an explosive device on the side of a road, near the rescue forces, killing Alnasasra and wounding two other trackers, including one seriously. The IDF carried out a wave of strikes in the area, in an attempt to eliminate the operatives behind the attack, the military said. Alnasasra’s death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 411. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and two Defense Ministry civilian contractors. Earlier Saturday, the IDF said that over the weekend, the Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes on over 150 targets in the Gaza Strip, including cells of terror operatives and Hamas infrastructure. Since March 18, when Israel resumed its offensive against Hamas, the IDF said it has struck over 1,400 targets in Gaza. The 282nd Artillery Regiment also struck dozens of targets in recent weeks, in the Morag Corridor area between Rafah and Khan Younis in the Strip’s south. The IDF said the targets hit by the artillery shelling included weapon depots, rocket launching sites and operatives. Also over the weekend, the IDF said the 188th Armored Brigade, which is currently operating in the Morag Corridor, killed more than 40 terror operatives and destroyed numerous weapons, as well as a Hamas pickup truck. In Rafah’s Shaboura camp, the military said troops of the Givati Brigade and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit located and demolished a booby-trapped tunnel. The tunnel was hundreds of meters long, according to the IDF. The Givati troops located numerous other weapons in the area, the IDF added.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] In a heroic operation that underlines the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza, a Kornet missile targeted am Israeli military vehicle in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, eastern Gaza. The Palestinian resistance fighters targeted the Zionist rescue force with an IED explosion, raising the number of the enemy casualties. According to the latest toll, one Zionist officer was killed, and five soldiers were critically injured in the attack. The Israeli media outlets indicated that the Army helicopters carried the injured soldiers into the hospitals in the Zionist settlements. The Israeli air force started a large scale aggression on Gaza Strip just after the attack, showing again that the enemy assaults the civilians when it fails to defeat the resistance fighters. Israeli occupation forces have intensified their military campaign across the Gaza Strip, unleashing a series of devastating air and drone strikes that have killed numerous civilians and wounded many others. | |
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