Four Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza, Hamas says 'booby-trapped'
The Israeli army said on Tuesday that four of its soldiers had been killed in fighting in southern Gaza the previous day, more than eight months into the war with Hamas. The soldiers were "killed in fighting in southern Gaza," the army said in a statement on Monday, without giving further details on the circumstances of the deaths.
Israeli public broadcaster Kan said the soldiers were killed in a building explosion in Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip.
On Monday night, Hamas's militant wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said its fighters had "booby-trapped" a building in the Shabla refugee camp in Rafah.
"The Qassam Mujahideen managed to blow up a booby-trapped house where Zionist forces were holed up... "Members of the (Israeli) military were killed or wounded," the group said in a statement.
The Times of Israel reported that the explosion also wounded seven soldiers, five of them seriously. It said the military death toll since the ground offensive in Gaza began on October 27 was 298, and that countries, including US ally Israel, had spoken out against the operation, fearing for the safety of Palestinian civilians sheltering in Gaza city. Well over a million people have since fled, seeking shelter wherever they can.
The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, which left 1,194 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli statistics.
Israel's retaliatory military operations have killed at least 37,124 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled area.
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