Israeli commander: We’re fighting unprecedented battles in Khan Yunis that we haven’t witnessed anywhere else in the Gaza Strip

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The commander of the Israeli Commando Brigade, Omer Cohen, acknowledged on Wednesday that his forces were engaged in battles in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, that hadn’t been witnessed anywhere else in the Strip.

This came in statements made by Cohen to Haaretz newspaper, as part of a report on the progress of the fighting in Khan Yunis, where the Israeli army is launching a ground attack.

Cohen said, “We’ve been in Hamad City for a week and two days… We’ve fought here a fight that we haven’t seen anywhere else in the Strip so far”.

He added, “The neighborhood is full of terrorists (Palestinian fighters) and the most advanced combat equipment, including high-level explosives that have already been used against us”.

He continued, “While Hamas has lost its ability to command and control in large parts of the Gaza Strip, but here in the Hamad neighborhood the combat formation is still working”.

He pointed out that Hamas has greater capabilities to manage the forces here, and this is clear in the fighting that took place over the past few days.

For his part, a Lieutenant Colonel, commander of a special reconnaissance unit affiliated with the Golani Brigade, said, “When you enter the Hamad suburb, you truly realize that this is a hornet’s nest for terrorists”.

Haaretz newspaper correspondent who accompanied the forces in Khan Yunis explained, “After about a week and a half of fighting, it seems that the Hamad neighborhood, like most of the places that the Israeli army entered in the Gaza Strip, will no longer be habitable”.

He pointed out that almost all of the 120 buildings in the place were destroyed or damaged, and there will be a need for major reconstruction so that people can live there.

Since the beginning of the ground attack in the Gaza Strip, 250 Israeli officers and soldiers have been killed out of 590 soldiers killed since the beginning of Hamas attacks on the 7th of October, and 1,475 were injured in the ground attack, out of a total of 3,071 since the outbreak of the war, according to the Israeli army.

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