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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Al-Qassam launches raid on Israeli forces in Khan Younis</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">July 9, 2025</div>
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fighters raided Israeli forces in eastern Khan Younis, targeting tanks
and APCs, attempting a capture, and seizing a soldier\u2019s weapon.</p><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
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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)
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The group added that during the operation, its fighters attempted to capture an <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--on-blast-as-media-exposes-report-discrepancies-in-g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli soldier</a>. However, due to battlefield conditions, they were unable to do so and instead neutralized the soldier and seized his weapon.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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 <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-hits-iof-groupings-in-khan-younis---tough-incident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli occupation forces</a> continue their ground operations in Gaza.</p>
<h2>'Israel' on blast amid discrepancies</h2>
<p>"Israel" is facing mounting scrutiny and accusations of suppressing real-time information from the public, following<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-releases-footage-of-double-ambush-that-killed-7-io">a deadly ambush by the Palestinian Resistance</a><span> </span>in northern Gaza that was initially misreported.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Later reports indicated that the total number of <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--on-blast-as-media-exposes-report-discrepancies-in-g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wounded occupation soldiers</a> had reached 14, including two in critical condition, six with moderate injuries, and six with minor wounds.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Censorship to control public consciousness</h2><div>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Hadashot B\u2019zman</em><span> </span>consequently
accused the occupation military\u2019s 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<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--admits-another-soldier-killed-in-jabalia-explosion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concealing human losses</a><span> </span>to preserve "civil resilience" amid continued warfare.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">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.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Hadashot B\u2019zman</em><span> </span>further
questioned whether Israelis would have known the reality without
platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, stating, "Certainly not from
official or mainstream media."</p>
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