Qassam Brigades announce mortar attacks on Israeli forces

On its official Telegram channel, the armed wing of Hamas says that it carried out two recent attacks on Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip.

In the first, it said it “destroyed” a gathering of Israeli army vehicles penetrating the outskirts of the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the strip’s north using 18 mortar shells.

In the second, the Qassam Brigades claim to have destroyed an Israeli army command headquarters and engineering group along the Netzarim axis, which separates the north of the Gaza Strip from the south.

On Sunday, the Israeli military said it had withdrawn its ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis, amid conflicting reports about the scale and duration of the disengagement.