TEHRAN, Apr. 06 (MNA) – Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Hamas said it inflicted heavy losses on the invading Zionist Israeli regime's troops in different operations in Khan Yunis, located in the south of Gaza Strip on Saturday.

The Qassam Brigades announced in a statement on Saturday that they killed three Zionist regime's soldiers in Khan Younis, located in the south of the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of Israeli troops killed on Saturday to eight. 

The Hamas forces targeted three Israeli ‘Merkava’ tanks with ‘Al-Yassin 105’ shells and successfully hit rescue forces attempting to advance by detonating three previously prepared anti-personnel devices, the statement said.

On Saturday evening, it was reported that a group of soldiers were targeted by Qassam, killing three of them. 

Five more other Israeli soldiers had been killed in different operations earlier today.

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