Hamas utilizing decoy speakers, ambushes against Israeli forces: Ynet

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Israeli Media
24 Nov 2023 01:16
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The Palestinian Resistance continues to utilize new tactics to confront the invading Israeli occupation forces as the latter bear the brunt of the quickly-adapting Resistance.

A screen grab from a video posted by Al-Qassam Brigades depicting its fighters engaging an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-yassin 105 RPG (Military Media)

Hamas is actively employing new tactics to surprise Israeli forces invading central Gaza City, Israeli media reported.

Israeli Ynet News military affairs correspondent Yoav Zitun reminded that senior Israeli commanders overseeing the ongoing operations a month ago said the tide of battle would sway in favor of those who innovate and learn quickly.

In areas such as the al-Zaytoun neighborhood and Jabalia in the northeast, Hamas has intensified its hit-and-run attacks featuring lone wolves emerging from hiding, firing, and swiftly retreating to tunnels connecting to the opposite side of the street, the Israeli journalist said.

The attacks, he added, involve the coordinated firing of Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) from multiple directions.

He also lauded what he called a "sophisticated" approach that has emerged in the past week, wherein the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, has been placing speakers in alleys that had been hit by Israeli bombardment, which are being used to broadcast Arabic conversations to instill further chaos among the invading Israeli soldiers.

Reportedly, said speakers will have interlocutors, who are mostly children and teenagers, talking to each other in Arabic, which has had a chaotic effect on the Israeli soldiers invading such areas.

The Israeli military journalist stressed that the Palestinian Resistance is utilizing this tactic when the Israeli occupation soldiers, whether infantry or in tanks, approach. They activate the speakers when they approach to disorient them.

Israelis going through the wringer

In a recent incident, he reported, an infantry force followed by tanks investigated sounds coming from an alley leading to a previously attacked street. As they advanced, Resistance fighters hidden on a high floor of a nearby building opened fire with machine guns and anti-tank missiles.

The confrontation saw the Palestinian Resistance fighters used explosive devices and frag grenades to take down the invading Israeli soldiers, highlighting how the guerilla warfare methods used by the Palestinian Resistance are serving them and undermining the Israeli effort to invade Gaza and completely curbing it, even.

The spokesperson for Hamas' military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, revealed Thursday that as the Palestinian Resistance continues to confront the Israeli occupation forces, 355 Israeli military vehicles have been struck since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza.

Abu Obeida said the targeted Israeli military vehicles varied between troop carriers, tanks, and bulldozers, adding that the resistance engaged 33 vehicles in the last 72 hours.

Abu Obeida said one of the resistance fighters attacked 8 Israeli occupation soldiers east of al-Rantisi Hospital in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, wounding some and killing the others.

Moreover, he revealed that the resistance fighters booby-trapped a tunnel and blew it up as it was filled with Israeli soldiers.

The military spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades also confirmed that the occupation was still hiding its military losses by underreporting them, stressing that "the trembling leadership of the occupation decided to put its soldiers in the heart of the fire pit in Gaza."

Al-Qassam fighters destroy Israeli armored vehicles

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, published footage of its Resistance fighters directly confronting and targeting Israeli military vehicles and soldiers during their aggression on Gaza.

The video shows one of the fighters planting an IED on the back door of a Merkava tank and a group engaging a vehicle's crew at point blank with AKMs.

#WATCH | The Military Media of Al-Qassam Brigades published a video depicting its fighters engaging and destroying multiple Israeli vehicles.

The video shows one of the fighters planting an IED on the back door of a Merkava tank and a group engaging a vehicle's crews at point… pic.twitter.com/0JCmxap2nY
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Al-Qassam published scenes showing them launching missiles toward the occupied Palestinian territories and hammering enemy positions on the contact lines with mortar shells.

In turn, the Al-Quds Brigades announced on Wednesday evening, that they, in conjunction with the Al-Qassam Brigades, targeted an Israeli Merkava IV tank with two RPG-85 and al-Yassin 105 charges.

Underreporting numbers?

It is worth noting that the numbers given by Hezbollah and al-Qassam Brigades surpass the "officially" declared count of Israeli soldiers killed in the operations, as "Israel" has a long-established policy of not declaring its actual losses. "Israel" has reported six soldiers and one settler killed on the Lebanese border. At the same time, Hezbollah affirmed Thursday that more than 354 IOF soldiers were killed or wounded in action north of occupied Palestine since October 7.

Hamas repeatedly challenges "Israel" to disclose the actual number of its casualties.

For example, al-Qassam Brigades Resistance fighters successfully targeted on Monday 60 Israeli military vehicles of various types and confronted the invading forces in several axes across Gaza, the group's spokesperson Abu Obeida said.

In an audio recording, Abu Obeida revealed that these military vehicles were targeted in the axes of southern al-Zaytoun neighborhood, the Sheikh Radwan and al-Tawam neighborhoods west of Jabalia camp, as well as in Beit Lahia. Three of the vehicles were armored personnel carriers, he added.

Most of these vehicles, he explained, were hit by al-Yassin 105 shells, in addition to homegrown anti-tank IEDs, shrapnel bombs, and Tandem 85 shells.