The military wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, targeted a grouping of Israeli occupation soldiers and their vehicles with several mortar shells today, Thursday, in the vicinity of Dar Al-Arqam School, east of the al-Tuffah neighborhood, in the northeastern part of Gaza City.

The al-Qassam Brigades also announced several operations carried out by its fighters against Israeli troops earlier in July. These operations include sniping a soldier stationed on a Merkava tank, targeting him with an al-Ghoul rifle near Dar Al-Arqam School on Wednesday, while other fighters targeted the surrounding area with several mortar shells.

After they returned from combat, the al-Qassam Brigades fighters confirmed they had targeted an Israeli military excavator with a Tandem shell near Dar Al-Arqam School as well, on the 6th of this month.

On July 10, the al-Qassam Brigades snipers shot two Israeli soldiers in a direct hit near Al-Nasr School on Baghdad Street in Gaza City's al-Shujaiya neighborhood.

The al-Qassam carried out a joint operation with the al-Quds brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, whereby their fighters targeted an Israeli occupation command and control site in the Morag sector, south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, firing several mortar shells.

These latest operations come in addition to the al-Qassam Brigades' announcement earlier this Thursday morning that they had targeted a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers and military vehicles with mortar fire east of al-Qarara, near Khan Younis.

Other Palestinian factions join operations

Meanwhile, the Martyr Omar al-Qassam Forces, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), released footage showing they had captured an Israeli quadcopter west of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

The footage also documented a joint operation carried out alongside the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, targeting Israeli troop concentrations in Jabalia al-Balad in the northern Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

Al-Qassam strikes Israeli vehicles in Gaza, inflicts casualties

On Wednesday, the al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters had detonated an explosive device against Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday evening.

In a statement, the al-Qassam said its fighters detonated three bombs targeting an Israeli military vehicle convoy in the southern al-Batin as-Sameen area, located south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing and injury of an unspecified number of Israeli soldiers.

On Saturday, July 26, the al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters had carried out a complex ambush targeting three Israeli troop carriers east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The brigades stated in their announcement that their fighters successfully detonated two troop carriers using pre-planted improvised explosive devices in the vehicles' cabins, destroying both carriers and killing their crews.