Agencies - Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced Sunday the killing of nine Israeli soldiers during the start of the ground attack on the Gaza Strip that began last night.

Battalions of Izzudin al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas Movement said in its statement that through its entering into wireless apparatuses of the occupation army it learned that 5 soldiers were killed before the number to rise to reach nine among them an officer.

The Israeli occupation army admitted in a statement on Sunday morning the wounding of 30 of its soldiers in the land attack it launched on Gaza Strip. The Israeli army pointed out that two of them; an officer and a soldier are seriously wounded.

On the other hand Palestinian medical sources announced that a number of Palestinian resisters were wounded seriously during the battle that happened north of Gaza but ambulance cars are unable to reach them to take them to hospitals.

The savage Israeli aggression on Gaza has reentered its eighth day so that the number of the Palestinian victims to rise to 430 martyrs and more than 2280 injured , many of them children and women at a time the spectators and condemning ones are also on increase without any real action to prevent a catastrophe of human and homeland.

The Israeli air raids in the last two days that targeted houses of the resistance members of Hamas resulted in the martyrdom of 10 Palestinians among them 5 children.