Epic Battles in Rafah as Israeli Military Claims Soldiers “Stung by Wasps”

Related FileFriday battles were resounding as fighters of the Palestinian resistance movements valiantly defended Rafah against Israeli attempts to encircle the area to the east of Rafah.

Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, announced its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli occupation soldiers in eastern Rafah.

The group announced an operation in which resistance fighters targeted a structure where an Israeli force was stationed in with TBG shell and hit an Israeli troop carrier with an RPG east of Rafah. Al-Qassam confirmed that casualties were reported among members of the Israeli force.

The resistance group declared another operation in which Al-Qassam fighters detonated a minefield at Saad Sayel Barracks, east of Rafah.

“Confirmed casualties were reported among Israeli soldiers following the deadly ambush at Saad Sayel Barracks,” Al-Qassam announced.

The area near Saad Sayel Barracks was also a scene for a third operation carried by Al-Qassam fighters who targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks with Yassine-105 shells, according to the resistance group.

Meanwhile, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement, issued a video showing mortar shells being fired at an Israeli troops and vehicles in eastern Rafah.

Israeli media, for its part, reported that sirens sounded twice at Karem Abu Salem, south of the Gaza Strip.

Shortly after Al-Qassam announced the operation in which a minefield was detonated at Saad Sayel Barracks, media outlets and social media circulated reports that Israeli helicopters evacuated a number of Israeli soldiers from Rafah to Soroka Medical Center.

A Zionist helicopter has now landed in Soroka to transport dead and wounded from Rafah🔥 pic.twitter.com/gnznhHr22j

— Nadira Ali🇵🇸 (@Nadira_ali12) May 10, 2024

Later on Friday, Israeli occupation military announced that 11 soldiers were evacuated from southern Gaza for treatment, claiming that they were stung by wasps in the southern Gaza Strip.

“The incident occurred amid an operation by the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade in the border area, near Nirim,” Israeli media quoted occupation army as saying.

“A tank had driven over a large wasp nest, leading the insects to sting the troops,” the Israeli occupation military added.