[News] 'Israel' admits officer killed, Resistance strikes in Gaza City

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'Israel' admits officer killed, Resistance strikes in Gaza City
Al Mayadeen English
Auguat 23, 2025
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The Palestinian Resistance continues to confront the IOF as they make their
way into Gaza City to occupy the territory.

   - [image: An Israeli soldier works on a tank parked in a staging area
   near the Israeli-Gaza border, Occupied Palestine, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025
   (AP)]
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   An Israeli soldier works on a tank parked in a staging area near the Gaza
   border, occupied Palestine, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 (*AP*)

The Israeli military confirmed on Saturday that an officer was killed
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in southern Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media
reports.

He was named as Lt. Ori Gerlic, 20, a platoon commander in the Kfir
Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion, from Meitar.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Resistance continues its operations against
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the invading Israeli forces across multiple fronts, inflicting both human
and material losses on the Israeli military.

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that they had
targeted two Israeli
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tanks with high-explosive improvised explosive devices (IEDs), east of the
al-Rawda site in the southern al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. The
Brigades reported that its fighters observed a rescue force arriving at the
scene.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades released footage documenting a joint
operation with the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of
the Popular Resistance Committees, in which they targeted a gathering of
Israeli soldiers and military vehicles with mortar shells
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in the vicinity of Villas Street, north of Khan Younis.

On August 22, the al-Qassam Brigades announced that they had fatally shot
an Israeli soldier
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with machine gun fire as he exited a Merkava tank in the vicinity of Badr
Mosque, south of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Additionally, the al-Quds Brigades stated that it shelled Israeli military
machinery
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positioned near the al-Muhandis Hall in the al-Satar al-Gharbi area of
northern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip using standard 60mm mortar
rounds.

Before that, on August 21, the al-Quds Brigades released footage of a
coordinated ambush, carried out jointly with the al-Qassam Brigades, that
targeted Israeli armored vehicles with explosives and anti-tank shells east
of the al-Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City.
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