Shortly before Palestinian fighters killed and wounded many Israeli soldiers in the Shuja’iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, on Tuesday, that very group of soldiers had a meeting on the outskirts of the town.
A video, which circulated widely on social media, showed one of the officers – later killed – vowing to avenge other Israeli soldiers who were killed in that very neighbourhood in the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza.
The Shuja’iyya battle in 2014 is believed to have been the most decisive battle between invading Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance in Israel’s so-called ‘Operation Protective Edge’.
Back then, Israel admitted to the killing of 16 soldiers.
Shortly after that speech, the officers who vowed to avenge the dead soldiers of nearly ten years were themselves the victims of resistance ambushes.
Al-Qassam Brigades said that the number of Israeli soldiers who have died in three successive ambushes led by the resistance, exceeds the number of casualties declared by Israel by far.
Source : MEMO
