The armed wing of Hamas announced in a statement early Sunday it had lured Israeli troops and tanks into an ambush in a mine field east of Gaza City, killing 11 soldiers

The armed wing of Hamas announced in a statement early Sunday it had killed 11 soldiers in a twin infilitration operations.

Resistance fighters said said they lured Israeli troops and tanks into an ambush in a mine field east of Gaza City killing six Zionist soldiers and several others were wounded. However, the entity which is known for hiding its deaths, admitted only two soldiers were killed.       

Also on Saturday, a sergeant and a major were acknowledged dead in fighting a group of resistance fighters who infiltrated into the occupied territories through a tunnel from the center of the Gaza Strip.
  
Hamas’s military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, said 12 of the fighters stayed "behind enemy lines" for six hours before engaging in "direct confrontation with the enemy to avenge the blood of our martyrs, particularly the children."

The al-Qassam Brigades said the fighters tunneled under the Gaza border into occupied territories near the Sufa crossing east of Rafah. Then they shot five soldiers dead. they also seized weapons from them.

It said three were killed by direct gunshots to the head, while the others suffered bullet wounds in other areas of their bodies. Only one resistance fighter was martyred and the others managed to re-enter the tunnel and return to Gaza.

On Sunday, the Zionist army acknowledged two more soldiers had been killed in fighting in and around the Gaza Strip, bringing the alleged total Israeli death toll to seven.

“The soldiers were killed by an anti-tank missile and in a gun battle, both late Saturday,” the army said giving no further details, as the occupying entity intensified its ground assault against the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli army announced it would expand its ground operation, which began late Thursday, 10 days into its aggression against Gaza.