On Thursday, "Al-Qassam Brigades" published a video documenting the process of rigging a tunnel entrance in Beit Hanoun and luring an Israeli engineering unit to the location before detonating it. Al-Qassam stated in a brief announcement that the Israeli army admitted to the deaths of five soldiers, including an officer, in the operation.
Al-Qassam Brigades: Scenes of rigging the entrance of one of the Al-Qassam tunnels in Beit Hanoun and luring an engineering unit to the location before the explosion, with the enemy acknowledging the deaths of five soldiers, including an officer in the operation.
On Saturday, the Israeli army announced the death of five soldiers during ongoing clashes in northern Gaza with Palestinian fighters, noting that they were from the elite reserve brigade.
According to the statement, "the deceased were of high military ranks." Meanwhile, the newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth" reported that preliminary investigations indicated that four of the deceased were soldiers from the elite reserve brigade, who were killed by the explosion of a booby-trapped tunnel entrance near a mosque in the Beit Hanoun area in northern Gaza.
