The Palestinian Resistance continues targeting Israeli settlements on the 233rd day of the war, in response to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and continues to carry out complex operations and ambushes in its confrontation with occupation forces penetrating all fronts, leaving Israeli soldiers dead, wounded and captured, and forcing the Israeli occupation forces to retreat.

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, announced that it bombed Tel Aviv with a large rocket barrage, in response to the massacres against Palestinian civilians.

#Watch | Footage captures the joyous celebration of #Gaza residents after Al-Qassam Brigades launched a large rocket barrage toward Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/yp3yGq4G09

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Following the attack, Israeli media reported that 12 rockets were fired from Rafah towards the Gush Dan settlement in the Tel Aviv region, injuring one person. They also noted a heavy barrage of missiles targeting central Israel from Rafah.

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The Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that they targeted: five tanks, two military bulldozers, and an Israeli troop carrier, with al-Yassin 105 and Tandem shells, and Shawaz and Guerilla Action devices, in the “Block 2” and al-Dakhiliyah Street area in the Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

Al-Qassam targeted the occupation forces invading the al-Qasaseeb neighborhood in the same camp, with heavy-caliber mortar shells. It confirmed that its Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava 4 tank, with a locally made Al-Yassin 105 missile, in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, shared scenes documenting its targeting of a gathering of occupation vehicles with several Ababil IEDs east of Jabalia Camp.

Also, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced that its fighters destroyed, with a barrage of 60-caliber mortar shells, a gathering of occupation soldiers and vehicles in the al-Qasaseeb neighborhood. In turn, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza confirmed that the Palestinian Resistance is confronting the occupation forces' attempts to invade Tabbat Zare', northeast of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli media acknowledged that the Israeli occupation army is reducing its forces in the operation east of Rafah, with the Givati Brigade retreating from the city on Sunday morning. It confirmed that a reserve lieutenant colonel, who is the commander of the 6828 Battalion of the Bisalah Brigade, was wounded in the chest by Resistance sniper fire during confrontations with the Resistance in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

It further detailed that the wounded lieutenant colonel was Itamar Eitam, the son of Reserve Brigadier General Avi Eitam, a former Knesset member and head of the "Mifdal" party. Israeli media revealed that the presence of snipers is stressing the occupation because "Hamas has increased sniper activity, specifically in areas where the forces operate intensively."

This comes after the Palestinian Resistance shook the Israeli entity after taking Israeli captives in a new and complex operation. 

Al-Qassam captures Israeli troops, gear in complex Jabalia operation

In a voice-recorded message, al-Qassam's military spokesperson, Abu Obeida, revealed the details of the complex operation, which he said saw Resistance fighters kill, injure, and take captive members of an Israeli force. 

Abu Obeida said that the first stage of the operation saw Resistance fighters lure an Israeli occupation force into a tunnel, ambushing them inside. The Brigades' fighters confronted the force at point blank, killing and wounding its members, he said.

After an Israeli reinforcement unit arrived at the scene, the Resistance group targeted it using explosives and confirmed direct hits.

Detonating the tunnel behind them, Abu Obeida said that the "fighters then withdrew... having inflicted casualties on all members of the [Israeli] force, leaving them dead, wounded, or captured, and seizing their military equipment."