Gaza Resistance pounds Israeli command centers, fatally snipes soldier
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Palestinian Resistance factions record the flights of several rescue helicopters evacuating Israeli casualties from Rafah.
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An al-Qassam sniper takes aim at an Israeli soldier to the east of Rafah, the Gaza Strip, Palestine, on August 8, 2024. (al-Qassam Brigades/Military Media)
Palestinian Resistance factions conducted a series of operations on the 310th day of the Israeli war on Gaza, dealing casualties among Israeli occupation forces in the besieged territory.
Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades confronted occupation forces in Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip, and executed a series of attacks on Sunday.
Several Israeli soldiers killed, injured in Rafah
Its fighters fired a locally produced tandem rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), al-Yassin, at an Israeli armored personnel carrier (APC) in the Zalata area in eastern Rafah.
The fighters also targeted an Israeli force that garrisoned itself in a building in the western neighborhood of Tal al-Sultan, firing a thermobaric RPG shell at the building, killing and injuring those inside it.
Al-Qassam fighters also monitored the movement of an Israeli military rescue helicopter evacuating the Israeli casualties from the targeted area in western Rafah.
The Resistance faction also revealed that its fighters detonated a high-explosive improvised explosive device, planted in the ground at a previous time, targeting an Israeli infantry force to the east of Rafah.
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said that its fighters who had returned from the frontlines reported that they carried out a mortar attack against the Israeli command and control center in western Rafah.
The brigades' fighters, who operate under its Khan Younis battalion, confirmed that several Israeli troops were wounded, as Israeli rescue helicopters were seen evacuating the casualties near the village of al-Soueida to the west of the city of Rafah.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) also launched a mortar attack on Israeli forces in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood.
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Israeli soldier sniped in eastern Khan Younis
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades and al-Qassam Brigades fighters were able to locate and snipe at an Israeli occupation soldier in the al-Zannah neighborhood to the east of Khan Younis.
The Resistance fighters used a locally-produced anti-material Ghoul sniper rifle to conduct the operation, fatally wounding him.
The al-Quds Brigades mortar units launched several fierce attacks on Israeli occupation forces in northeastern Khan Younis.
The Resistance factions announced three mortar attacks on Israeli forces to the northeast of the city of Khan Younis. The attacks targeted Israeli armored vehicles and infantry units in al-Zannah and Abu Hadaf.
Moreover, the al-Quds fighters fired several rocket-assisted munitions on an Israeli command and control center in northeastern Khan Younis.
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