Hamas says it is fighting Israeli ground troops around Gaza City

Hamas said that fighting was taking place with Israeli ground troops at several locations around Gaza City.

The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that Israel was pressing ahead with ground operations in the Palestinian territory without commenting on the location of its troops.

According to the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement which controls Gaza, fighters attacked four Israeli army vehicles south of Gaza City.

In north-western Gaza, a tank and a bulldozer were attacked with two anti-tank missiles and other vehicles were fired upon north of the city, Hamas said.

In addition, soldiers on foot near the Kerem Shalom border crossing in the south-east of the Gaza Strip were fired upon with mortar shells, Hamas said.

The information could not be independently verified.