[News] Al-Qassam launches raid on Israeli forces in Khan Younis

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Al-Qassam launches raid on Israeli forces in Khan Younis
Al Mayadeen English
July 9, 2025
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Al-Qassam fighters raided Israeli forces in eastern Khan Younis, targeting
tanks and APCs, attempting a capture, and seizing a soldier’s weapon.

   - [image: A wounded soldier arrives for the funeral of an Israeli
   soldier, who was killed in action in the Gaza Strip, at Mt. Herzl Military
   Cemetery in occupied al-Quds, occupied Palestiine, Tuesday, July 8, 2025
   (AP)]
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   A wounded soldier arrives for the funeral of an Israeli soldier, who was
   killed in action in the Gaza Strip, at Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery in
   occupied al-Quds, occupied Palestine, Tuesday, July 8, 2025 (AP)

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Thursday
that its fighters carried out a raid at dawn against a gathering of Israeli
occupation soldiers and military vehicles in the Abasan al-Kabira area,
east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the Brigades said that its fighters targeted a Merkava tank
and an armored personnel carrier with Yassin-105 anti-armor shells. Two
Israeli military excavators were also hit during the same operation using
similar munitions.

The group added that during the operation, its fighters attempted to
capture an Israeli soldier
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--on-blast-as-media-exposes-report-discrepancies-in-g>.
However, due to battlefield conditions, they were unable to do so and
instead neutralized the soldier and seized his weapon.

Following the confrontation, al-Qassam fighters observed an Israeli
helicopter landing at the site of the operation to carry out an evacuation,
underscoring the intensity of the battle in the targeted area.

The Al-Qassam Brigades also noted that five days earlier, they had targeted
a Merkava tank in the same region with a powerful improvised explosive
device (IED), highlighting the sustained resistance activity in eastern
Khan Younis as Israeli occupation forces
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-hits-iof-groupings-in-khan-younis---tough-incident>
continue their ground operations in Gaza.
'Israel' on blast amid discrepancies

"Israel" is facing mounting scrutiny and accusations of suppressing
real-time information from the public, following a deadly ambush by the
Palestinian Resistance
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-releases-footage-of-double-ambush-that-killed-7-io>
 in northern Gaza that was initially misreported.

On Tuesday, the Israeli military confirmed that five soldiers from the
Netzah Yehuda Battalion were killed and two others seriously wounded after
explosive devices detonated during battles in the area. The announcement
came only after Israeli media had circulated inaccurate preliminary
casualty figures.

Later reports indicated that the total number of wounded occupation soldiers
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had reached 14, including two in critical condition, six with moderate
injuries, and six with minor wounds.

The discrepancy between the initial and updated figures sparked public
scrutiny over the concealment of accurate casualty data, raising further
concerns about the deliberate withholding of critical data from the public.
Censorship to control public consciousness

*Hadashot B’zman* consequently accused the occupation military’s
spokesperson of intentionally hiding the true number of casualties, arguing
that this is part of a broader strategy aimed at "engineering Israeli
public consciousness" by concealing human losses
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 to preserve "civil resilience" amid continued warfare.

The platform compared the incident to previous state efforts to downplay
suicide rates among both soldiers and civilians, noting that since 2018,
institutions like the Ministry of Health have withheld real statistics,
following reports of over 1,280 suicides in a single year, despite official
claims of a decline.

*Hadashot B’zman* further questioned whether Israelis would have known the
reality without platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, stating,
"Certainly not from official or mainstream media."
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