The military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, described the operation carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, as complex and that it required high skill to implement it.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced today, Saturday, that it had killed 15 Israeli soldiers after a group of its fighters stormed a house in which a large number of soldiers were barricaded, and clashed with them from zero distance with machine guns and grenades, before detonating an anti-personnel device in the Al-Tanour neighborhood.
Al-Duwairi said, in an analysis of the military scene in Gaza, that the Qassam operation took place in three stages: reconnaissance and providing reliable information, then the bombing in the first stage, and then the final attack from zero distance.
He stated that in the first phase, Al-Qassam fighters used what are called internally manufactured thunderbolts, which are explosives whose weight ranges from half a kilogram to two and a half kilograms, and they are placed either inside a plastic or cardboard cover, or they are placed in an arc shape, and placed in Its outer face contains a very large amount of small metal pieces.
The detonation process is carried out electrically or remotely, resulting in shrapnel covering the target, causing great losses, shock, terror, chaos and confusion.
The military and strategic expert adds that when what he considered to be the fatal moment came, the Qassam Brigades fighters rushed and reached point zero, and there they began using machine guns, automatic weapons, and hand grenades, and finished off the rest of the group belonging to the Israeli occupation army.
Yesterday, Friday, Al-Qassam spokesman Abu Ubaida said that Al-Qassam fighters targeted 100 military vehicles of the occupation within 10 days, stressing the resistance’s readiness for a “long battle of attrition with the enemy” and its ability to withstand and fight.