GAZA, (PIC)-- The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, successfully captured at a late hour Saturday two Israeli soldiers in the area of Jabal Al-Rais, east of Gaza city, where they were transferred to a safe place away from the battlefield, media reports said.
For their part, Israeli sources said that the Israeli military command lost contact with one of its soldiers.
The capture of the two Israel soldiers happened when Qassam fighters ambushed a special Israeli force east of Gaza and detonated an anti-personnel explosive device at them which inflicted a number of casualties in their ranks.
Qassam spokesman Abu Obeida stated that the Brigades would not give any free information to the Israeli occupation on the capture of the soldiers, adding that the Palestinian people and the world will hear surprises in the coming hours.
Abu Obeida noted that the number of Israeli soldiers killed is more than the number of Qassam martyrs.
The spokesman underlined that the Israeli occupation was "foolish" when it decided to carry out its incursion in the Gaza Strip because the Palestinian resistance was getting prepared for years to confront it, pointing out the IOF troops are confused, invade empty areas, try to stay away from the resistance attacks and shell civilian houses from a distance.
Hamas political leader Khaled Mishaal had warned Israel before the incursion that any folly to invade Gaza would make its troops face a black fate and join their mate Gilad Shalit who already fell in the hands of the Palestinian resistance.
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