The Palestinian resistance continues to engage in operations against the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza amid ongoing confrontations.

The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the downing of an Israeli Skylark-2 UAV that was on an intelligence mission in the Tal al-Zaatar area, north of Gaza.

In recent hours, the Brigades also announced the destruction of a Merkava tank and two personnel carriers with al-Yassin tandem rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and successfully targeted IOF and vehicles, east of the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

An IOF tank was also targeted using al-Yassin tandem rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and targeted the area with mortar shells east of Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

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Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported that the resistance was engaged in violent confrontations from street to street in Khan Younis and that violent confrontations were occurring in the vicinity of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

In turn, the Al-Quds Brigades announced the targeting of the Third Eye military sites within the Gaza envelope as well as the destruction of an operation center for the IOF as well as IOF vehicles in the north of Khan Younis with a barrage of mortar shells and rockets.

In Central Gaza, the Al-Quds Brigades announced it targeted a gathering of IOF troops and vehicles with mortar shells east of the Bureij camp. The Brigades also announced the targeting of a command and control center in the southeast of the Zaytoun neighborhood in northern Gaza.

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Additionally, the National Resistance Brigades (the forces of the martyr Omar al-Qassem) announced the targeting of a cluster of IOF vehicles in Khan Younis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced that, at dawn today, they lured an occupation force to one of the previously booby-trapped houses and blew it up.

Another contributor to the fight against invading forces is the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and its armed wing the Abu Ali Moustapha Brigades who announced they targeted an armored personnel carrier (APC) east of Bureij camp with a Tandem shaped charge.

Resistance rips through fully boarded Israeli APC in Gaza Strip

Palestinian Resistance factions announced several operations targeting Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the central Gaza Strip, Gaza City, and Khan Younis, on Tuesday morning.

Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades announced a series of operations, all of which took place to the east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, to the south of Gaza City. 

Al-Qassam fighters targeted two Israeli Mekrava tanks with al-Yassin tandem rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), confirming direct hits in two distinct operations.

Later, the Resistance faction's fighters targeted an Israeli armored personnel carrier (APC) in the same axis of confrontation. The Brigades confirmed that the Israeli occupation soldiers were on board the APC and that a direct hit to the vehicle killed and injured its crewmembers.

Al-Qassam fighters also monitored that an Israeli military rescue helicopter arrived at the scene to transport the casualties.

IOF struggle in Khan Younis

Moving down south, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigades confirmed that its fighters are engaged in fierce confrontations against Israeli occupation forces.

Although the Brigades did not delve into the details of its operations, it did reveal that it had deployed anti-armor units, mortar units, and infantry forces to push back against occupation soldiers attempting to advance into the city of Khan Younis since the early hours of Tuesday morning.