The Palestinian resistance factions announced the implementation of several specific operations against the Israeli occupation army in the north and south of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades said that they targeted 23 Israeli army vehicles, and those vehicles included 13 tanks, 4 troop carriers, 3 bulldozers, and 3 military vehicles.
The battalions and companies engaged in fierce clashes with the Israeli army in 3 axes: east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, east of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
In the eastern Rafah axis, the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – said that during these clashes, they targeted a Merkava tank, 3 troop carriers, and a D-9 military bulldozer with Al-Yassin 105 shells and explosive charges.
It added that it was able, in conjunction with the Al-Quds Brigades, to “strike enemy concentrations inside the Rafah crossing with heavy-caliber mortar shells.”
Pictures published by the Al-Qassam Brigades of what they said was the targeting of an Israeli troop carrier east of Rafah and concentrations of soldiers and vehicles at the Rafah crossing.#Gaza_War #News pic.twitter.com/B1nQSTIKXr
– Tel Aviv Tribune Channel (@AJArabic) May 13, 2024
The Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast a video recording that it said showed the targeting of an Israeli troop carrier with a missile, Al-Yassin 105, east of the city of Rafah.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – said that it bombed with 60-caliber mortar Israeli soldiers and vehicles penetrating east of George Street, and destroyed enemy military concentrations with missile barrages.
It added that it, in conjunction with the Al-Qassam Brigades, targeted a “Tiger” personnel carrier with an anti-armor shell in the vicinity of the Eastern Cemetery in the Al-Salam neighborhood.
The Al-Quds Brigades broadcast scenes showing its fighters targeting Israeli military crowds and vehicles penetrating east of Rafah.
Jabalia axis
In the east of the Jabalia camp, Al-Qassam said that it targeted, with “Al-Yassin 105” and “B-29” shells, 11 Israeli tanks, including 9 Merkava types, in addition to a “D9” bulldozer. It added that it “destroyed the concentration of enemy forces there with mortar shells.” “Heavy caliber.”
She added that she was able to snipe an Israeli soldier behind the Abu Zeitoun schools.
In this axis, the Al-Quds Brigades bombed with mortar shells an Israeli force on foot on Asaliyeh Street, and also bombed soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of the Rabaa cafeteria, and in the vicinity of the Abu Zeitoun schools.
The brigades said that they killed and wounded an Israeli foot force and targeted a Merkava tank on Al Hadad Street with an RPG shell.
She indicated that she was able to snipe two soldiers behind Abu Zeitoun schools.
Al-Zaytoun neighborhood front
In the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood axis, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that they “destroyed enemy concentrations on Street 8 with mortar shells.”
Al-Qassam broadcast a video recording that it said showed the launching of a batch of rockets towards the city of Ashkelon in southern Israel.
As for the Al-Quds Brigades, they said that they targeted an Israeli D-9 military bulldozer with an anti-armor shell.
It added that it targeted 3 military vehicles with RPG shells and a high-explosive “barrel-piercing” device.
#urgent | Al-Qassam: Our mujahideen were able to shoot down an Al-Yassin 105 shell by marching on a Merkava tank east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.#Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/SWFTQ4GoFr
– Tel Aviv Tribune Channel (@AJArabic) May 13, 2024
For its part, the Israeli occupation army admitted that 11 soldiers and 3 Ministry of Defense employees were injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the past hours.
Two Israeli soldiers from the Yahalom unit were seriously injured in battles in the southern Gaza Strip. Six others were also moderately injured, according to the Israeli “Wala” website, which indicated that the soldiers were exposed to mortar shells.
An Israeli soldier from the Givati Brigade was seriously injured in battles in the northern Gaza Strip, and two other soldiers were injured in an operational road accident near the security fence in the area of the town of Niram in the northern Gaza Strip.