The Resistance in the Gaza Strip continues to confront the Israeli occupation forces, with operations on the 415th day of Operation al-Aqsa Flood focusing primarily on Rafah in the south.

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, engaged a 10-soldier Israeli infantry unit at close range on University Street in the al-Janina neighborhood, east of Rafah, resulting in casualties among the soldiers.

In the same area, the al-Qassam Brigades targeted an Israeli force that had fortified itself in a house, using an anti-personnel shell. They also launched two Yassin 105 shells at an Israeli D9 military bulldozer, setting it on fire, and struck another military vehicle north of Burj Awwad in Rafah.

In northern Gaza City, specifically in the al-Tawam area, the al-Qassam Brigades shelled an Israeli command and control post that had advanced into the area with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells.

Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, downed an Israeli Evo Max drone that had been dropping bombs on residential buildings in the northern Gaza Strip.

As part of the cooperation between various military wings of the Resistance factions, the al-Qassam Brigades and the Martyr Jihad Jibril Brigades targeted an Israeli control and command site in the Netzarim axis with 107mm rockets.

Additionally, the al-Quds Brigades, in collaboration with the al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military wing of the Mujahideen Movement, struck the Israeli Fajjah military site with 107mm rockets.

The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, released footage showing their targeting of Israeli soldier positions and the Abu Areeban site in Netzarim with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

'Israel' ignored chances to end wars on Gaza, Lebanon: Ex-official

There is no visible change in the fighting arena in Gaza, and at the beginning of the second winter of the war, it seems that wallowing in the Gaza mud is inevitable, former Israeli occupation Air Defense official Tzvika Himovitch said Sunday.

Himovitch admitted in an interview with Israeli media outlet Israel Hayom that the opportunity to "end the war in Gaza in exchange for the release of the captives was a paramount Israeli interest, but unfortunately, it remained an untapped opportunity."

He argued that "a settlement in the north is complicated, especially regarding the mechanisms for implementing and applying the conditions insisted upon by Israel," noting that "the situation in Gaza is much more complex."

"As long as the Israeli government is not willing to discuss what comes after Hamas in Gaza, we will witness Israeli army incursions and temporary control operations in different areas of the Gaza Strip, Jabalia now—and tomorrow?, and the friction between the Israeli army and the terrorist groups will continue. The cost in terms of our soldiers' lives will increase more and more," the former Israeli official stressed.

He emphasized that without a settlement that ends the war and includes the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the prospects of releasing the 101 captives held there have significantly diminished.

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