The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement said it had killed 10 Israeli soldiers in an operation on al-Nazaz Street in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood.

In a statement on Telegram, Qassam Brigades said that fighters targeted a building occupied by Israeli troops with a TBG (thermobaric) rocket, before entering the building and killing the remaining soldiers from a distance.

“During their withdrawal, they [the fighters] detonated an explosive device inside the building, and then helicopters intervened to evacuate the dead and wounded soldiers,” the statement added, according to Al Jazeera. 

It also said resistance fighters struck an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with a Yassin-105 rocket.