The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said 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 a distance with machine guns and grenades, before detonating an anti-personnel device in the area. Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam also announced that it bombed the occupation forces inside the Rafah land crossing with mortar shells, targeting an Israeli Merkava tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah, amid continuing battles and fierce clashes east of the city.
Abu Ubaida, Al-Qassam spokesman, said yesterday, Friday, 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.
Abu Ubaida added – in a speech obtained by Tel Aviv Tribune – that “the Israeli enemy, 32 weeks after the seventh of last October, enters hell again in Gaza and faces more severe resistance, in light of an unequal war and the legendary defense of the people of Gaza and their resistance against the barbarity of the occupation.” “.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – broadcast scenes that it said were of a complex operation carried out east of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, targeting occupation soldiers and vehicles east of the city. #Rafah South of the sector
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Yesterday, Al-Qassam also broadcast several scenes from its “specific” operations against the occupation, including its sniper attack by an Israeli soldier on the advance front lines, east of the city of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The scenes showed three Israeli soldiers being spotted on the roof of a building, installing devices and equipment before one of them was targeted and fell without knowing his fate, then the other two soldiers fled.
Continuous bombing
For his part, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported today that occupation aircraft violently bombed areas in Rafah, confirming the martyrdom of two people as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Berbera camp in central Rafah, and the martyrdom of another Palestinian in a bombing that targeted a house in the Abasan Al-Kabira area east of Khan Yunis, coinciding with the continuation of artillery shelling. In Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
This comes in light of the ongoing occupation war on the Gaza Strip for the 225th day, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic and a worsening famine looming over the besieged Gaza Strip.