Al-Qassam Brigades destroy 8 Merkava tanks, 4 armored vehicles

By Al Mayadeen English
6 Nov 2023 17:48
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Resistance fighters continue to repel Israeli forces attempting to encircle Gaza City, while the Israelis intensify their bombing of the Strip killing 10,000 Palestinians.

A screengrab from footage released by al-Qassam Brigades shows a tandem charge traveling toward an Israeli Namer armored personnel carrier near Gaza City's coast, the Gaza Strip, Palestine (Al-Qassam Brigades/Telegram)

On the 30th day of confrontations in the Gaza Strip, the Resistance foils Israeli infiltration attempts on multiple axes in the Gaza Strip, unprecedented Israeli airstrikes and shelling.

Hamas' al-Qassam has released daily footage of its fighters confronting and destroying Israeli armored vehicles, using locally produced al-Yassin 105 rocket-propelled grenades, which have proven their exceptional effectiveness.

The Resistance has dedicated a substantial portion of its production capabilities to accumulating the game-changing charges, that have destroyed or disabled dozens of Israeli armored vehicles

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Al-Qassam's operations: Relentless

Confrontations concentrated on the coastal side of the northern Gaza Strip as well as the southern outskirts of Gaza City, as Israeli forces attempted to encircle the city.

Al-Qassam Brigades tally

Al-Qassam Brigades' mortar units targeted Israeli occupation groupings to the east of Juhor ad-Dik, and to the southeast of Gaza City.
Since Monday dawn, Resistance fighters destroyed a total of 4 Israeli armored vehicles using 105 mm tandem charges in al-Shati camp, near the coast of Gaza City, and Hay al-Sheikh Radwan, located between al-Shati and the Jabalia refugee camp.
These 4 vehicles add to another Israeli Merkava tank that was destroyed in the southern areas of Tal al-Hawa, located in the southern outskirts of Gaza City.
At noon mortar units attacked Israeli occupation forces to the northwest of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
An hour later the Brigades announced that they had destroyed another Israeli tank in the same area with a locally produced al-Yassin charge.
Al-Qassam's rocket artillery also targeted the Re'im military site to the east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip.
In the afternoon, al-Qassam fighters destroyed the third Israeli Merkava tank in Hay al-Israa to the northwest of Gaza City.
The Brigades announced that its fighters in the north of Beit Lahia, continue to fiercely confront occupation forces in the area.
Later the Brigades announced their largest tally yet, saying they destroyed 5 occupation Merkava tanks in the same area.

Al-Quds Brigades and DFLP

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine's National Resistance Brigades targeted several occupation outposts and groupings around areas of engagement on Monday.

Al-Quds Brigades' mortar units targeted the occupation's military groupings north of Gaza City.
The Brigades also launched mortar attacks to the northwest of Beit Lahia and the south of Tal al-Hawa where fighting was concentrated.
In the afternoon, al-Quds Brigades targeted several Israeli occupation military sites and evacuated Kibbutzim, which housed occupation soldiers, with concentrated rocket fire.
On the other hand, the National Resistance targeted the "Sufa" military site in the southern Gaza Envelope with mortar shells.

Gaza's flames scorch occupation soldiers

So far, the occupation has admitted that 348 of its soldiers have been killed since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was launched on October 7.

More recently, the spokesperson for the Israeli military confirmed that an Israeli soldier was killed in the Gaza Strip while Israeli media reports revealed that a First Seargent serving under the 202nd Paratrooper Brigade was critically wounded on the same front on Sunday.

The mounting deaths of Israeli soldiers coincided with an increase in deaths among Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip. Although the former is due to the work of Resistance fighters, the latter comes as a direct result of "Israel's" indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip. So far, Israeli warplanes and artillery batteries have killed at least 60 captives in the Gaza Strip.

Defeated on the battlefield; "Israel" intensifies war crimes

Simultaneously, the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip has risen to a total of 10,022 Palestinians including 4,104 children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

This comes after Israeli occupation forces deliberately cut off Internet and communication services in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. The number of martyrs and the extent of the destruction inflicted on the Gaza Strip became more apparent later on Monday as reports indicated that at least 200 people were martyred during the attack.

The occupation's shelling and airstrikes targeted several areas in the Gaza Strip, including roads and streets that lead to the southern part of the Strip. The occupation had previously announced that the southern sector of the Strip would be a safe area for Gazans to seek refuge in.

However, quickly after, the occupation targeted a convoy of forcibly displaced people, as it continues to do to this day according to Gaza's governmental media office. Emergency services have also been subject to "Israel's" deliberate bombing, as rescue teams were not allowed to save injured people and retrieve dead bodies on Monday.