Qassam Brigades Targets Israeli Tank
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that its fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank in the central Gaza Strip.
In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the Brigades explained that the Brigades targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a highly explosive landmine in the Umm Dhahir area, south of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
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