The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, announced on Monday that its fighters had targeted an Israeli D9 military bulldozer with a Yassin-105 anti-armor RPG in the southern Gaza Strip.

The operation took place on Sunday in the area of Qizan al-Najjar, south of Khan Younis, amid an ongoing series of ambushes and confrontations against the Israeli occupation forces inside the besieged territory.

This latest strike comes just days after al-Qassam fighters successfully executed a well-coordinated ambush against an infantry unit of Israeli occupation soldiers in the Atatara area of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. According to a military communiqué, resistance fighters engaged the Israeli unit from point-blank range with light weapons after luring them into a carefully laid ambush on May 27.

The group reported that several Israeli troops were killed and wounded in the operation before the fighters safely returned from the combat zone.

Since the resumption of the Israeli occupation’s ground invasion on March 18, Palestinian resistance factions across the Strip have intensified their guerrilla-style operations, including ambushes and booby traps, inflicting mounting casualties among Israeli forces operating deep inside Gaza.

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The al-Qassam Brigades announced on May 31 that their fighters had ambushed a Zionist infantry unit in a carefully planned trap and engaged them at point-blank range with light weapons during a May 27 operation. The al-Qassam fighters confirmed fatalities and injuries among the Israeli force.

The brigades also reported on May 30 that they had jointly carried out an operation with Saraya al-Quds against an Israeli-aligned collaborationist unit in southern Gaza, as fighting continued and truce talks remained deadlocked.

In their statement, al-Qassam detailed that the collaborationist force had been sheltering inside a home in Khan Younis's European Housing complex when Resistance fighters hit the building with both a TBG bunker-busting round and a fragmentation shell, causing fatalities and injuries among the unit's members.

The brigades announced on May 25 that their fighters had rigged a house where Israeli soldiers were sheltering with multiple high-explosive devices and detonated it in the early hours of May 20, causing the building to collapse and inflicting heavy casualties on the troops inside.