The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – showed scenes of one of its fighters sniping an Israeli soldier in the “Netzarim axis” southwest of the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.
The scenes showed that the Qassam sniper carefully monitored the Israeli soldier, before directly targeting and wounding him. He immediately fell to the ground and his colleague quickly fled.
Al-Qassam has intensified its sniping operations in recent weeks, especially in the areas north of the Gaza Strip, thanks to the locally made Al-Ghoul Al-Qassam rifle, which was given this name after its developer, the martyr Adnan Al-Ghoul, and its lethal range reaches two thousand metres.
It is not known precisely how many sniping operations have been carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades since the beginning of the current war, but on February 22, it revealed that its fighters carried out “57 sniping missions, including 34 with the Qassam Ghoul rifle, and led to the killing of dozens of occupation soldiers.”
The Qassam scenes also included part of the mortar shelling of Israeli occupation crowds in the Netzarim axis, which separates the northern Gaza Strip from its center and south.
The Al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza have been documenting their operations against the occupation army forces and vehicles on various fronts of combat since the start of the Israeli ground operation on October 27, and many details of the operations carried out against the occupation forces appeared in the video clips.