The commander of the Israeli army's southern region, Yaron Finkelman, said on Tuesday that the army is waging a complex, difficult and costly war against the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip.

Winkelman added that the Israeli army is fighting for the first time in decades in the heart of Gaza City, stressing that the Hamas attack on October 7 seriously injured them, and that the events of that day hurt him greatly. He continued that the Israeli army failed in its mission on last  October 7, saying that since that day the war has become clear with its goals of eliminating the Hamas movement and returning the detainees, he said.

For its part, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that it had confronted attempts by the Israeli army to penetrate the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the ground campaign launched by the occupation, and that it had inflicted human losses and material damage on the occupation.

Today, Tuesday, Al-Qassam said that it destroyed 8 Israeli tanks and a troop carrier, in addition to “bombarding enemy crowds penetrating into the Gaza Strip with heavy-caliber mortar shells.”

The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip for the 32nd day in a row resulted in the death of more than 10,300 Palestinians, amid the inability of the Civil Defense to extract those under the rubble, and cutting off the supplies of water, food, medicine, fuel and electricity to the residents of the Strip.

Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia