On the 181st day of the war, the Palestinian Resistance continues to engage in fierce confrontations against Israeli occupation forces in various combat zones in the Gaza Strip.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported intense confrontations between the Palestinian Resistance fighters and Israeli occupation forces east of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and in the towns of Aabasan al-Kabira and Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Strip.

In this context, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, confirmed that its fighters targeted the settlements of "Ashkelon", "Sderot", and "Nir Am", as well as other Gaza Envelope settlements with rocket barrages.

Al-Quds Brigades said its Resistance fighters engaged a special Israeli force entrenched in a building in Khan Younis with an armor-piercing shell and hit a tank with a Barq-type explosive device at the same location.

The Brigades' fighters also downed an Israeli reconnaissance drone and captured it.

In addition, al-Quds Brigades' Resistance fighters attacked Israeli military gatherings with a barrage of 60mm mortar shells in the vicinity of the al-Amal Hospital and the al-Arayshiya area on the western outskirts of Khan Younis.

Using mortar shells, al-Quds Brigades also targeted the "Kfar Aza" settlement, in the Gaza Envelope, and the "Netivot" settlement and its surroundings in the western al-Naqab.

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On its part, al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that its fighters engaged an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with an al-Yassin 105 shell east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Additionally, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades attacked Israeli soldiers and their military vehicles with a barrage of 60mm mortar shells west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

To the west of Gaza City, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fighters confirmed engaging an Israeli military D9-type bulldozer with an RPG shell.

Furthermore, the Military Media of Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), published footage showing Resistance fighters targeting the Kibbutz "Kissufim" with a rocket barrage.

مشاهد من استهداف الوحدة الصاروخية في كتائب الشهيد أبو علي مصطفى لمستعمرة "كيسوفيم" في وقت سابق برشقة صاروخية رداً على جرائم الاحتلال بحق شعبنا. #طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/iZa372odGl

— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) April 4, 2024

As part of the cooperation between various Palestinian Resistance factions, al-Quds Brigades and Martyr Omar al-Qassem Brigades attacked Israeli soldiers and their vehicles with mortar shells in the Sheikh Ajleen area west of Gaza City.

Israeli media outlets confirmed that sirens sounded in the "Kfar Aza" and "Netivot" settlements in the Gaza Envelope, as well as in the "Ashkelon" settlement.

Israeli authorities in "Sderot" confirmed that one of the rockets fired from Gaza landed in a neighborhood and hit a house.

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