A 12-member cell targets Israeli forces on a navy provide route, underscoring the resilience of organized Palestinian resistance.
A big cell of Palestinian resistance fighters ambushed Israeli forces alongside a navy provide route in Khan Yunis, within the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported.
In accordance with the report, the group—believed to be affiliated with Hamas—meant to kill and seize Israeli troopers.
The cell, reportedly composed of 12 fighters armed with rifles and grenades, withdrew right into a tunnel earlier than executing the ambush, escaping Israeli makes an attempt to assassinate them.
Citing navy sources, Israeli Military Radio warned that the operation might have inflicted heavy losses on Israeli forces had it succeeded. The incident, it mentioned, displays Hamas’ continued capability to function in organized, well-armed cells able to gathering intelligence and planning advanced assaults, regardless of practically ten months of all-out battle.
Watch: Footage aired by Israel’s Kan channel reveals yesterday’s ambush by Palestinian resistance fighters in Khan Yunis.
The resistance arrange a posh ambush in an try to seize Israeli troopers. Regardless of recognizing the fighters, the occupation forces did not remove… pic.twitter.com/W1YtG0NKgz
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 31, 2025
The Israeli navy’s considerations over abduction makes an attempt have intensified in latest weeks. On July 17, the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, launched a video exhibiting captured Israeli troopers, urging others to give up slightly than be killed.
Earlier that month, Al-Jazeera aired unique footage of a failed Hamas operation to grab an Israeli soldier throughout a raid on Israeli forces east of Khan Yunis. A Qassam commander later advised the community that future makes an attempt to seize troopers can be extra profitable.
Individually, Israeli media on Sunday broadcast footage from one other ambush close to Rafah in southern Gaza, exhibiting the second an explosive system detonated underneath an Israeli navy car.
The assault killed two Israeli troopers and injured 4 others, together with the commander of the desert reconnaissance battalion. For the reason that begin of the battle on October 7, 2023, the Israeli military has acknowledged the deaths of 898 troopers, although Palestinian resistance factions insist the true toll is considerably larger.
As resistance operations persist, the humanitarian disaster in Gaza continues to deepen.
In a video launched by the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, 22-year-old Israeli captive Rom Barslavsky appeared gaunt and weeping from an undisclosed location in Gaza.
Video about one of many captives held by the Al-Quds Brigades
The final message from the captive soldier “Rom Barslavsky,” earlier than dropping contact with the capturing group.
The message is that the captives are affected by famine in Gaza
— Ahmed M. Fahmy 🇪🇬 (@ahfahmy85) July 31, 2025
Barslavsky described his deteriorating bodily and psychological situation, saying he suffers from dizziness, issue respiration, and fixed ache. “Each time I attempt to rise up and go to the toilet, I fall,” he mentioned within the video. “I merely don’t eat or drink. From morning till night time, there may be nothing.”
The soldier pleaded with Israeli authorities to permit humanitarian assist into Gaza, linking his personal struggling to that of the inhabitants round him.
“I noticed kids dying of starvation—skeletons. I’ve by no means seen something like this earlier than,” he mentioned. “Please deliver meals earlier than I die of starvation. If not for the youngsters of Gaza, then do it on your prisoners.”
The video confirmed Barslavsky writing in his diary and watching photographs of ravenous kids in Gaza.
The video concluded with a stark message: “What our persons are struggling is what your prisoners are struggling,” underlining that the siege imposed by Israel on Gaza is inextricably linked to the destiny of Israeli captives held contained in the Strip.
(PC, AJA)