TEHRAN- A survey published by Israeli media shows that 62% of Israeli soldiers support signing a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.

According to the survey, 61.8% of the soldiers are in favor of the prisoner swap agreement, while 14.4% oppose it, 7.6% have no opinion, and 16.2% are unsure.

This comes as hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters are calling on their government to accept the prisoner exchange deal, holding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for the delay in reaching an agreement and recovering the captives in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) has put the captives in Gaza at grave risk through its indiscriminate bombings of the enclave, with Israeli Army Radio reporting that 47 out of 120 captives in Gaza have been declared dead.

The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that the Israeli military believes the captives Alex Dancyg and Yagev Buchshtav, who were declared dead in Gaza, were “killed in an Israeli army operation in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, at the beginning of this year.”

A political commentator on the regime’s Kan Channel, said that “following exceptional security consultations lasting six hours, concerning the Israeli document for the prisoner exchange deal and ceasefire, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that the Israeli delegation will continue (indirect) negotiations (with Hamas) on Thursday.”

The Palestinian resistance in Gaza continues to confront the invading Israeli forces in the strip, successfully blowing up part of a tunnel used by Israeli engineering units in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.

The resistance movement has persisted in repelling the Israeli forces invading the strip for more than 290 consecutive days, inflicting further losses on them.

The armed wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam brigades, targeted three Merkava tanks and a D9 military bulldozer with Yassin 105 shells and an explosive device in the Bani Suheila area, east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

Al-Qassam fighters targeted a Merkava 4 tank with a Yassin 105 shell and, through a guerrilla operation using an explosive device, in the al-Furkan neighborhood in Tel al-Sultan. 

Additionally, al-Qassam fighters managed to blow up part of a tunnel used by Israeli engineering units while the Israeli forces were pumping explosive gas inside, causing an explosion against these forces in Tel al-Sultan.

The armed wing of Hamas released footage of the resistance forces’ operations against the Israeli military in Rafah, indicating significant losses among the IOF.

Footage was also released of a SAM 7 missile being fired at an Apache helicopter over the central Gaza Strip.

The resistance engaged an Israeli force inside a building at close range, causing casualties among them in the al-Furkan neighborhood. 

Earlier, al-Qassam fighters targeted a Merkava 4 tank with a Yassin 105 shell and a D9 military bulldozer with a Yassin 105 shell in the same neighborhood.

The brigades, in cooperation with the Popular Front, also attacked the IOF in the northeastern part of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

Al-Qassam brigades also struck the Israeli command post at Netzarim with short-range caliber 114mm rockets. 

Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds brigades shelled the Israeli Karm Abu Salem and Sufa military positions east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.