Al-Quds Brigades fighters engaged Israeli occupation forces in fierce confrontations on Monday, in the Yabna refugee camp, in the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip, Rafah. 

The Brigades announced that its fighters engaged occupation forces, utilizing assault rifles and anti-tank shells in the center of the Yabna camp. 

It also said that its fighters fired a thermobaric rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at a building that Israeli occupation forces had taken positions in. The shell killed and injured members of the targeted Israeli forces in Yabna. 

Al-Quds Brigades' mortar units also shelled occupation forces in Yabna, with 60 mm shells, killing and injuring occupation soldiers invading the camp. Israeli rescue helicopters were seen landing in the area to evacuate the Israeli casualties. 

The Brigades also shelled occupation forces along the Netzarim Axis, a strategic route occupied by Israeli forces that splits the northern Gaza Strip from the rest of the besieged territory. 

Warning sirens also rang in Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, to the east of Rafah, however, no announcement has been made by Palestinian Resistance factions to this point regarding an attack. 

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Al-Qassam fighters detonate unexploded Israeli bomb in Tal al-Hawa

Further north, in the southwestern Gaza City neighborhood of Tal al-Hawa, al-Qassam Brigades fighters that had returned from the frontlines, reported on an ambush targeting Israeli armored and infantry forces.

Resistance fighters detonated an unexploded Israeli bomb into an Israeli force consisting of two Merkava tanks and several infantry troops accompanied by the armored force. 

The Resistance has been steadfast in its defense of the Gaza Strip for over 280 days, completing several defense campaigns against Israeli occupation forces in multiple cities, towns, and neighborhoods across the Gaza Strip. 

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