Damaged Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles pictured in the besieged Gaza Strip on Nov13<\/p>\n
The Israeli military says ten of its troopers were killed on Tuesday during the aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.<\/strong><\/p>\n A senior Israeli colonel who commanded a forward base of an elite infantry unit was killed in Gaza, the Israeli military said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Itzhak Ben Basat, 44, was killed along seven other Israelis\u00a0on Tuesday in an ambush by Palestinian fighters in Gaza’s Shejaiya neighborhood.<\/p>\n Ben Basat, head of the Golani Brigade’s commander’s team, is the most senior Israeli officer to be killed in Gaza since the ground invasion was launched in late October.<\/p>\n Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Grinberg, commander of the Golani Brigade\u2019s 13th Battalion, was also among those killed.<\/p>\n Resistance fighters planted explosives and then opened fire at the Israeli forces,\u00a0who came to aid the dead and wounded.<\/p>\n The occupying regime\u2019s military on Wednesday announced the new fatalities that bring to 115 the total number of Israeli troops killed in the Gaza war.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the Israeli military put the number of its troops killed in Gaza at 105, saying 20 of them died by friendly fire and other accidents.<\/p>\n Another 582 regime soldiers have also been wounded in Gaza, including 133 seriously.<\/p>\n Israel waged the brutal war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 18,412\u00a0Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 50,100 others.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the United Nations General Assembly\u00a0overwhelmingly voted for a resolution\u00a0demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which is under \u201ccomplete siege\u201d by Israel.<\/p>\n The document expressed \u201cgrave concern over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population\u201d amid Israel\u2019s relentless assault.<\/p>\n