Complex operations; pinnacle of Gaza Resistance today's confrontations
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The Palestinian Resistance initiates plenty of complex operations against Israeli occupation forces in Gaza and rocket launches toward Israeli settlements.
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A screen grab from a video showing the moment a drone launched by al-Qassam Brigades targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an anti-tank rocket east of Jabalia Camp. (Military Media of al-Qassam Brigades)
Palestinian Resistance factions continue to confront the incursions of Israeli occupation forces in various areas in Gaza, from Jabalia in the north of the Strip to the al-Zaytoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, and Rafah City in the southern part of the Strip, attacking Israeli occupation soldiers and military vehicles.
Jabalia
Since Sunday morning, Palestinian Resistance fighters have engaged in fierce confrontations with the occupation forces in eastern Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced engaging and destroying 10 Israeli military vehicles, including nine tanks and one armored personnel carrier after they penetrated eastward into Jabalia. The Brigades also shelled Israeli occupation forces' gatherings and vehicles in the area with heavy mortar fire.
In detail, al-Qassam fighters carried out a complex operation near the al-Mabhouh site, east of Jabalia Camp, targeting a Merkava tank with an al-Yassin 105 rocket. The occupation forces then fled to a house that was already booby-trapped by the Resistance, which resulted in casualties among their ranks.
In another complex operation, al-Qassam fighters engaged an Israeli special force with an explosive device and hit an Israeli armored personnel carrier with a Tandem shell east of Jabalia City, confirming casualties among the force's ranks.
Al-Qassam fighters attacked another Israeli special force entrenched in a house near the Mazaya Hall, east of Jabalia Camp, with TBG shells, causing casualties among the force, and targeted a Merkava 4 tank with an al-Yassin 105 rocket in the same area.
At the al-Mabhouh site, the Brigades engaged an Israeli tank with an al-Yassin 105 rocket, causing it to catch fire, and targeted the advancing Israeli forces there with mortar shells. At the same location, al-Qassam fighters bombarded an assembly of Israeli occupation forces and their military vehicles with heavy mortar shells.
Al-Qassam Brigades announced directly targeting an Israeli Merkava tank with an anti-tank missile, east of Jabalia Camp, with its military media later publishing footage of the operation.
كتائب #القسام تنشر مشاهد إسقاط قذيفة من طائرة مسيرة على دبابة ميركافاه شرق مخيم جباليا #طوفان_الأقصى #فلسطين pic.twitter.com/jYXqwwISbm
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 12, 2024
In separate statements, the Brigades confirmed that its fighters targeted five Merkava tanks with al-Yassin 105 rockets east of Jabalia Camp. It confirmed in one of the statements that one Israeli tank caught fire and its crew members were either killed or injured.
كتائب #القسام تنشر مشاهد لاستهداف دبابة إسرائيلية بقذيفة "الياسين 105" شرق مخيم #جباليا #فلسطين #طوفان_الأقصی pic.twitter.com/xHDNPQNevs
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 12, 2024
Al-Qassam Brigades' Military Media published footage documenting the moment Resistance fighters engaged an Israeli tank with an al-Yassin 105 rocket, east of Jabalia Camp.
Also in Jabalia Camp, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, engaged in fierce confrontations with Israeli occupation forces and carried out several operations against them.
Al-Quds Brigades fired an RPG rocket at an Israeli tank and directly hit it and targeted an assembly of Israeli occupation soldiers and military vehicles stationed behind the Riyad al-Salihin Mosque, east of the camp, with heavy mortar shells.
Martyr Omar al-Qassem Brigades announced targeting occupation forces' gatherings in the Netzarim axis with a barrage of heavy mortar shells.
Resistance fighters from the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades also engaged in fierce confrontations with the occupation forces in the advancement axis behind the Abu Zaytoun schools.
Intense confrontations in al-Zaytoun
Meanwhile, several areas of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City are witnessing fierce confrontations accompanied by relentless Israeli artillery and aerial bombardment.
Al-Qassam Brigades targeted Israeli occupation forces' gatherings in Street 8, south of the neighborhood, with heavy mortar shells. The Brigades' military media published footage of Resistance fighters emerging from tunnels and engaging the raiding occupation forces, south of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, with various-sized mortar shells.
كتائب #القسام تنشر مشاهد دكّ قوات الاحتلال المتوغلة جنوب حي الزيتون في مدينة #غزة بقذائف الهاون #طوفان_الأقصى #فلسطين pic.twitter.com/vMHGdK6BKQ
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 12, 2024
In a joint operation, al-Qassam and al-Quds Brigades' fighters targeted occupation forces' gatherings in Street 1 south of the neighborhood with heavy mortar shells.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are also engaged in fierce confrontations with the occupation forces, south of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, and targeted an Israeli military vehicle with an RPG rocket on Street 8.
Resistance initiates attacks against Israeli forces in Rafah
In Rafah City, al-Qassam Brigades engaged Israeli troops and military vehicles advancing near the Rafah border crossing in the south of the Gaza Strip with mortar shells in two separate rounds.
Al-Qassam fighters also bombarded Israeli occupation forces' gatherings and vehicles, east of the Rafah border crossing, with heavy mortar shells.
Meanwhile, al-Quds Brigades launched a barrage of 107 rockets at advancing occupation forces, east of Rafah, and attacked an assembly of Israeli occupation forces with heavy mortar shells.
In a joint operation, al-Quds and al-Qassam Brigades' fighters targeted occupation forces' gatherings advancing east of Rafah with a barrage of mortar shells.
Martyr Omar al-Qassem Brigades also targeted occupation forces' gatherings and vehicles in the east of Rafah with short-range 107 rockets.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades bombarded gatherings of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of Saad Sayel barracks. In the al-Shawka neighborhood, the Brigades targeted advancing Israeli troops and vehicles with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells.
From Jabalia to occupied Askalan
In a related context, al-Qassam Brigades launched a salvo of rockets toward the occupied city of Askalan, in retaliation for the massacres against civilians, from the area where Israeli incursions east of Jabalia camp are taking place.
The Brigades also renewed the shelling of Sderot in response to the Israeli massacres against civilians in Gaza, with Israeli media reporting the sounding of sirens in the settlement and the Gaza Envelope.
Israeli accounts on social media circulated videos of explosions in the settlements of Sderot and Nahal Oz following the launch of rockets from Gaza.
مشاهد متداولة لانفجارات في مستوطنتي "سديروت" و"ناحل عوز" بعد إطلاق صواريخ من #غزة pic.twitter.com/dQtZLrOFtQ
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 12, 2024
50 Israeli troops wounded in Gaza in the past 24 hours
This comes as the Israeli occupation military admitted to 50 of its troops being injured in 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.
The military also confirmed that Brig. Gen. Yogev Bar Sheshet, the Israeli Security Ministry’s deputy comptroller for the security establishment, was moderately wounded by shrapnel from gunfire in Gaza City.
Israeli media confirmed that Bar Sheshet was fighting with the Nahal Infantry Brigade chief’s forward command team in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood when he was injured by a bullet that penetrated his shoulder. He was then transported to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
According to the media, Bar Sheshet is considered the highest-ranking Israeli officer to be injured during battles with the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza.
Israeli media reported that an Israeli military helicopter landed in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate the casualties.
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