Palestinian Resistance announces direct hits on Israeli sites

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen Net
13 May 2023 19:53

The Al-Quds Brigades successfully targets gatherings of the Israeli occupation forces, utilizing guided missiles and mortar shells resulting in direct casualties among enemy lines.

Palestinian Resistance fighters fire a practice rocket into the Mediterranean Sea amid a joint military exercise, in Gaza, Palestine, 29 December 2020. (Reuters)

Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ), confirmed that its fighters were able to target several Israeli occupation forces' (IOF) sites, on Saturday, with guided missiles, on the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the Al-Quds Brigades said that its fighters were able to head to safety after targeting IOF positions which resulted in confirmed casualties.

The resistance group published a video detailing its shelling of IOF positions with mortars. The footage shows direct hits on Israeli troops concentrated alongside the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, which comes in retaliation to the assassination of multiple Resistance leaders; in what the Brigade dubbed "Operation Avenging the Free".

الإعلام الحربي لـ #سرايا_القدس ينشر مشاهد لرمايات الهاون في اتجاه مواقع العدو وحشوده على طول الحافة الشرقية لقطاع #غزة ضمن معركة #ثأر_الأحرار، رداً على اغتيال قادة سرايا القدس.#فلسطين #غزة_تقاوم #غزة_العزة pic.twitter.com/yyszRf7kOP
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In addition, the group announced that it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers fighters with a guided missile, dealing an accurate hit and setting the site ablaze.

Meanwhile, Israeli Channel 12 said that PIJ launched, for the first time, the "Badr 3" which exploded in an open area in the occupied coastal city of Askalan.

According to Israeli media, the new version of the "Badr" rocket has a short range of 5-7 kilometers, however, it holds a large payload weighing around 200 kilograms which can cause severe damage in its area of impact.

Furthermore, Israeli media speculated that the use of the rocket is part of a larger scheme, in which the PIJ, Hamas, and Hezbollah attempt to develop new military tactics in their confrontations with "Israel".

Earlier the Al-Quds Brigades stated that the Resistance has made the necessary preparations to take part in months of continuous confrontations and that the Palestinian Resistance benefits from longevity and the popular support of the Palestinian people. This comes in the context of several constant rocket barrages which target Israeli settlements in response to Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Large crowds attend the funeral of Iyad Al-Hassani (Abu Anas), a member of the PIJ's Military Council and Commander of the #AlQuds Brigades' Operations Unit, after he was martyred in a cowardly Israeli assassination in Al-Nasr neighborhood, in the west of #Gaza City.#Palestine… pic.twitter.com/chA684y4op
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The National Resistance Brigades, Martyr Omar Al-Qasim's Forces, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), reassured the Palestinian people, the Palestinian people and supporters of the Palestinian cause, that the Resistance which is avenging those martyred by "Israel", has made required logistical shifts in ist infrastructures, capabilities, weapons, ammunition, and fighters which will allow it to fights for weeks or months.

Furthermore, the military spokesman for the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Comrade Abu Jamal, said, "Amid the battle of Avenging the free, which was launched by the joint operations room to confront the cowardly Zionist aggression against our Resistance and our people, our victorious brigades and our valiant Resistance continue bombarding the fortresses and cities of the occupier with mortar shells and successive missile bursts to reach the depth of their fading entity."

Abu Jamal pointed to the sacrifices that Resistance leaders and fighters made, including "heroic" fighters of the PFLP, as he confirmed that the Resistance will respond to the crimes committed by "Israel", adding that the future is "stronger and greater" for Palestine.

Israeli terrorism will not alter the course of resistance

Wissam Zoghbar, a member of the Central Committee of the DFLP, said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mistaken if he believes that the targeting of the Resistance's leaders and the demolishment of Palestinian homes will change the course of events or the Resistance's conditions for a cease-fire.

The official insisted that the Resistance does not compromise on the blood of the martyrs or its people in Gaza, the West Bank, and in all arenas, and that it holds the decision regarding the continuation of the confrontations.

For the fifth day in a row, "Israel" continues its military aggression against the Gaza Strip, as its warplanes targeted houses and apartments, across the Gaza Strip.

The media office of the Palestinian government in Gaza indicated that 33 people have so been murdered by the Israeli aggression, 30% of whom are women and children while 147 civilians were injured.