The spokesperson of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)  Abu Hamza, has spoken in a broadcast address about the achievements of the resistance in Gaza.

Abu Hamza pointed to the failures of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and their prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, confirming that the brigades shot down an Israeli intelligence plane over Khan Younis, noting that more information would soon follow.

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The spokesperson also announced the targeting of an IOF member who barricaded himself in a home in Khan Younis. Following his speech, the military media of the Al-Quds Brigades published footage documenting the encounter.

Abu Hamza called the events happening on the battlefield "far too great" to be documented by resistance fighters' cameras, as the Palestinian resistance continues to confront the IOF in Gaza, causing several losses for the enemy. 

Abu Hamza stressed that there would be "no return and no stability for Israeli settlers as long as the war continues.” 

Regarding the IOF's goal of weakening the resistance, he vowed that whoever tried to disarm the Palestinian resistance would face death, promising that this goal would not be achieved even if the war on Gaza continued indefinitely.

Furthermore, he declared that Netanyahu would have to concede to the post-war reality and warned settlers that he was selling them an illusion.

Regarding the West Bank, which in turn witnesses daily raids and arrest campaigns carried out by the occupation forces in various cities, Abu Hamza saluted the fighters of the Al-Quds Brigades in Jenin, Tulkarm, and the entire West Bank who rendered the IOF vehicles to "scrap," especially in the Jabriyat neighborhood in Jenin. 

Nablus confrontations erupt, IOF warns of West Bank front exploding

As the pace of confrontations between the Resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation escalated in the West Bank, the Israeli media indicated that personnel at the military level of the occupation were warning that "the West Bank is on the verge of explosion."

Earlier, Israeli media quoted the Occupation Security Minister, Yoav Galant, as saying that the West Bank must be "calm" so that "the army can complete its mission in the Gaza Strip."

Large Israeli forces renewed their incursion into Tulkarm city from its western axis, just hours after withdrawing from the city in the northern West Bank after assassinating three members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the suburb of Iktaba.

The Israeli forces deployed reinforcements, including military bulldozers, toward Tulkarm city during the storming of the city and its camp. The occupation forces also positioned snipers on the rooftops of homes around the Tulkarm camp to tighten the siege according to informed sources to Al Mayadeen.

An Israeli drone targeted the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm, resulting in casualties, according to local Palestinian media. Al Mayadeen sources confirmed that the Israeli forces hindered the work of ambulances during their large-scale incursion into Tulkarm and its camp.

Palestinian Resistance fighters targeted the raiding Israeli forces with gunfire and improvised explosive devices in Tulkarm city and the vicinity of its camp. Local media also reported sounds of explosive devices detonating as Resistance fighters repelled the advancement of Israeli military vehicles.

The Al-Quds Brigades - Tulkarm camp Brigade claimed responsibility for targeting an Israeli military bulldozer with a powerful explosive device on the al-Shuhada neighborhood axis in the Tulkarm camp, confirming that its fighters damaged and disabled the bulldozer.

The Brigades mentioned that its Resistance fighters thwarted several Israeli attempts to infiltrate into the depths of the Tulkarm camp and monitored damaged Israeli military vehicles during the confrontations.

On its part, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Nur Shams camp said that its fighters engaged in fierce confrontations with Israeli occupation forces on various axes in the camp.

As intense confrontations escalated between Resistance fighters and occupation forces during the incursion into Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm, Palestinian media sources reported that the Resistance fighters in Tulkarm targeted points where occupation forces were concentrated with bullets and explosive devices in response to the assassination of the three members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the suburb of Iktaba.

Nablus confrontations erupt

Six Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation fire, Tuesday morning, as they confronted the IOF raiding al-Askar camp, east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, in an attempt to protect its residents and push back the occupation's forces.

A special force, followed by heavy reinforcements, from the occupation army, stormed the eastern area of the city of Nablus, as well as the Askar camp, from several fronts, according to what security and local sources reported to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

The sources added that confrontations broke out between Israeli forces and local youth, which led to a Palestinian being injured by live bullets in the back, while 5 others were injured in different parts of their bodies.

It has been also recorded that the IOF prevented ambulances from reaching the wounded and transported them to hospitals. This crime against humanity has been a recurring one in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as the IOF considers it a routine procedure.

Israeli forces are obstructing the passage of an ambulance attempting to reach Askar refugee camp in Nablus during this morning's raid. pic.twitter.com/Mg0oz4FCF0

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 9, 2024