The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that “its mujahideen killed 10 Zionist soldiers yesterday, Thursday, in a complex operation in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City.”

Al-Qassam added in a statement that its members targeted with an anti-fortified TPG shell a building inside which an Israeli force was barricaded, then they advanced towards the targeted building and eliminated the remaining members of the force from a distance of zero.

The statement confirmed that the Qassam force detonated an explosive device in the building during its withdrawal, and then helicopters intervened to evacuate the dead and wounded soldiers.

In a separate statement, Al-Qassam announced that today, Friday, it targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks with "Al-Yassin 105" shells in the Shuja'iya neighborhood.

Almost simultaneously with Al-Qassam’s announcement of this ambush, Israeli websites reported a “difficult event” that Israeli soldiers were exposed to in the Gaza Strip.

For its part, Israeli Army Radio said that 13 Israeli soldiers were killed during the last week, indicating that the army faces a challenge in Shujaiya.

For the eighth day in a row, the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza is witnessing battles between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation army, which over the past few days has suffered deaths and injuries in the neighborhood.

The Israeli army also said that the forces of the 98th Division continue to fight in the Shujaiya neighborhood, and claimed that during the past 24 hours they had killed a number of militants and found various means of combat.