The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, said today, Saturday, that it had killed 15 Israeli soldiers after a group of its fighters stormed a house in which a large number of soldiers were barricaded and clashed with them from zero distance with machine guns and grenades, before detonating an anti-personnel device in the Al-Tanour neighborhood. East of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Al-Qassam also announced that it bombed the Israeli forces inside the Rafah land crossing with mortar shells, targeting an Israeli Merkava tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah, amid continuing battles and fierce clashes east of the city.