Al Mayadeen's correspondent confirmed on Friday ongoing, fierce confrontations between the Palestinian Resistance and Israeli occupation forces in the vicinity of the Jordanian Field Hospital in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

Our correspondent reported intense Israeli artillery shelling south of the Nasser complex in the city, as well as to its east and west, with sounds of intense fighting in the surrounding area.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, ambushed a number of Israeli soldiers northwest of the al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza.

In a brief statement, al-Qassam Brigades announced that its Resistance fighters closed an opening of one tunnel after seven Israeli soldiers entered it, and then detonated the tunnel opening with an anti-personnel explosive device, resulting in several casualties among the invading forces.

The Brigades also targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks with a Shawaz Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) and an al-Yassin 105 shell.

In al-Maghazi camp, al-Qassam fighters targeted an Israeli military vehicle and a Merkava tank with al-Yassin 105 shells. To the east of al-Maghazi, specifically 500 meters from the Israel-erected separation fence between the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, the Resistance targeted an Israeli Merkava tank and a D9 bulldozer with al-Yassin 105 and Tandem shells.

It is noteworthy that three days ago, a total of 21 Israeli occupation soldiers and officers were killed in an operation carried out by Palestinian Resistance fighters in al-Maghazi, marking the highest death toll in a single operation since the start of the war in Gaza.

#شاهد تنفيذ مجاهدي القسام لعملية مركّبة ضد جنود وآليات العدو شرق مخيم #المغازي وسط قطاع #غزة.#طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/6fmSZwrTAr

— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) January 23, 2024

On Friday, al-Qassam Brigades targeted a Merkava tank with al-Yassin 105 shells west of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

Al-Quds Brigades

Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, announced that its Resistance fighters carried out a series of operations, including rocket attacks on the Israeli military sites of "Kisufim" and the "Third Eye" and the shelling of an Israeli military personnel gathering east of al-Bureij camp in central Gaza.

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In the central Gaza Strip, the Brigades targeted an Israeli military vehicle with a Tandem shell east of al-Maghazi camp and shelled an Israeli military gathering near the "Abu Safiya" military site with mortar shells and another site east of al-Msaddar village.

Additionally, al-Quds Brigades announced that its fighters shot down an Israeli drone while in use for intelligence missions, east of al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Al-Quds Brigades also claimed responsibility for targeting the occupied city of Askalan, as well as the settlements of "Sderot" and "Nir Am", in addition to other Israeli settlements in the Gaza Envelope, with rocket barrages.

#شاهد.. سرايا #القدس تعرض مشاهد من قصف التحشدات والمواقع العسكرية بحمم الهاون في محاور التقدم بمدينة #خان_يونس.#طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/Zjvselkmxj

— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) January 26, 2024

Al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, announced that its Resistance fighters shelled Israeli military concentrations east of al-Bureij camp in central Gaza with a number of rockets.

The Brigades also released footage documenting the shelling of the Israeli military site "Yiftah", the headquarters of the 1st Golani Brigade of the Northern Command in the Israeli Gaza Division.

كتائب المجاهدين تنشر مشاهد من قصف موقع "يفتح العسكري" مقر الكتيبة الأولى للواء الشمالي في فرقة #غزة بالصواريخ#فلسطين #طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/Rmcq9NJz2d

— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) January 26, 2024

Earlier on Friday, al-Qassam Brigades announced targeting an Israeli force fortified in a house west of Khan Younis with an anti-personnel shell, resulting in casualties among its members, while al-Quds Brigades said its snipers targeted an Israeli soldier southwest of the city.

The Israeli occupation military confirmed that one of its troops Sgt.-Maj. (res.), Eliran Yeger, in the 8170 Engineering Battalion, Givati Brigade, was killed in battles in southern Gaza on Thursday night.

On Thursday, Abu Obeida, the military spokesperson for al-Qassam Brigades announced that the group's Resistance fighters carried out 57 different operations over the past week, which saw the killing of 53 Israeli officers and soldiers from "point blank", among other losses inflicted on the occupation forces, as fierce confrontations continue across Gaza axes.

Abu Obeida also revealed that al-Qassam sniped at nine Israeli troops and that the total outcome of the operations resulted in the death and injury of dozens of invading forces.

Regarding losses in hardware, he stated that the Resistance successfully destroyed completely or partially 68 Israeli military vehicles in Gaza during the same period.

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