Palestinian Resistance in Gaza confront IOF invading Khan Younis
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Palestinian Resistance group announce carrying out a series of operations against Israeli occupation forces across Gaza.
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A screen grab from a video showing an Israeli armored personnel carrier moments before it was targeted by the al-Qassam fighters east of the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip (Al-Qassam military media)
The Palestinian Resistance in Gaza continues to fend off Israeli occupation forces for the 294h consecutive day, inflicting heavy losses on the invaders across combat zones.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that the eastern part of Khan Younis is witnessing intense confrontations between Resistance fighters and occupation forces besieging dozens of families in the Bani Suhaila area. The Resistance is attempting to break the Israeli battle lines and provide safe passage for the families to escape the military siege.
As part of the efforts, the Resistance successfully targeted several Israeli tanks and a D9 armored bulldozer.
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In the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood south of Gaza City, al-Qassam Brigades announced destroying two Israeli Merkava 4 tanks using Shawaz heavy explosives. The group said the tanks were surrounded by Israeli soldiers at the time of the detonation.
In the same area, the al-Qassam Brigades also targeted another Merkava tank with an al-Yassin 105 shell, sniped an Israeli soldier, and detonated an anti-personnel locally produced explosion against an Israeli infantry force, resulting in casualties among the soldiers.
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Similarly, the al-Quds Brigades announced destroying an Israeli military vehicle using the Thaqib heavy explosive in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood.
In Eastern Khan Younis, the group in a statement that their fighters engaged in fierce confrontations with occupation soldiers throughout Thursday night, revealing that their fighters targeted Israeli forces and their military hardware and vehicles with anti-tank rockets and heavy machine gun fire.
The al-Quds Brigades also targeted Israeli forces and their equipment stationed around the Rafah crossing gate with mortar shells. Additionally, along the supply line in the Netzarim axis, the brigades launched mortar attacks on gatherings of occupation soldiers, inflicting significant damage.
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For their part, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said they targeted an Israeli tank with an RPG shell in eastern Rafah. In Netzarim, they targeted an occupation force position with three 80mm mortar shells.
The Omar al-Qasim Forces, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also targeted occupation soldiers and their equipment in southern al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis, with mortar shells.
The Israeli occupation forces admitted on Friday that a soldier was killed after he was targeted with an anti-tank rocket while operating a D9 bulldozer in southern Gaza.
Under "cleared for publication", the IOF stated that the soldier was Moti Raveh, a sergeant in the reserves, who worked as an operator of heavy engineering machinery within the Givati Brigade.
With this, the number of casualties in the Israeli occupation forces has risen to 688 soldiers and officers since the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, among whom 328 were killed since the start of the ground aggression against the Gaza Strip.
