Resistance factions cause Israeli heavy losses during complex ops.
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The Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip continues to engage Israeli occupation forces across multiple fronts, especially in the Jabalia camp.
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A screen grab from a video posted by the military media of Al-Qassam Brigades depicting an attack on an Israeli APC, posted on May 15, 2024 (Military Media)
The Palestinian Resistance factions continue to carry out top-tier operations targeting Israeli occupation forces on several axes across the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday, Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades carried out a complex operation in the east of the Jabalia camp in eastern Gaza, where Israeli occupation forces are stationed. Its fighters were able to engage an Israeli Merkava tank using al-Yassin 105 shells, causing casualties among its operating team.
The al-Qassam fighters then eliminated seven Israeli soldiers found behind the targeted vehicle from point-blank range.
In another complex operation conducted in the School Street of the Jabalia camp, the Brigades targeted a special IOF force stationed inside a house, using an anti-infantry shell. As Israeli soldiers attempted to flee to the lower part of the house, the Resistance fighters used an anti-infantry Raad type of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) against them, causing casualties.
During the same operation, as an armored Israeli force advanced to rescue the injured and retrieve the bodies of the killed soldiers, al-Qassam's Resistance fighters targeted a Merkava tank using an al-Yassin 105 shell and detonated another using a Shawaz armor-piercing explosive device.
The Resistance fighters also sniped an Israeli soldier in another operation in the same area. In northeastern Jabalia, a Merkava tank was targeted using an al-Yassin 105 shell.
Meanwhile, in eastern Jabalia, al-Qassam pounded advancing occupation vehicles with mortar shells, targeted a Merkava 4 tank using an al-Yassin 105 shell in the al-Dakhiliyah street, and struck IOF gatherings with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
Using a Shawaz armor-piercing explosive device, the Resistance fighters targeted a D9 Israeli bulldozer in the east of the Jabalia camp, where a Merkava and a personnel carrier were also engaged using al-Yassin 105 shells.
Al-Qassam also hit the Israeli artillery position with heavy-caliber mortar shells, in northeast Gaza.
The Brigades' Military Media published a video documenting the targeting of Israeli troops and vehicles in eastern Jabalia.
#شاهد.. استهداف مجاهدو القسام لجنود وآليات العدو شرق مخيم جباليا شمال قطاع #غزة #طوفان_الأقصى #الميادين pic.twitter.com/YqLZcgZQJ2
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 14, 2024
To the east of the central district, near the Wadi Gaza bridge, the al-Qassam Brigades targeted advancing Israeli forces using mortar shells. Operations further spread to the south of the Strip, where mortar shells were used against Israeli forces located at the Rafah crossing.
In eastern Rafah, al-Qassam fighters targeted a D9 bulldozer using an al-Yassin 105 shell, which set it on fire, in the vicinity of al-Haroun Mosque.
Amid its continued operations for the 220th day in Gaza, the al-Qassam Brigades published a video of an anthem performed by its military choir, affirming the Resistance's persistence in the Strip.
"مقاومتنا في #غزة راسخة رسوخ جبال #فلسطين حيث لا جبال في غزة الا رجالها الأبطال وشعبها العظيم"
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 14, 2024
كتائب #القسّام تنشر "كليب" بعنوان: جِبالُ غَزة - أداء الجوقة العسكرية في القسّام.#الميادين #جبال_غزة pic.twitter.com/mBtjBLAzmE
Al-Quds Brigades operations
The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, affirmed, on its part, intense clashes against a special Israeli unit deployed inside a residential apartment in the Jabalia camp, using machine guns and Tandem shells, confirming casualties among Israeli ranks between killed and injured.
To the east of the camp, behind Block 2, the al-Quds fighters targeted a Merkava tank using a Tandem shell. They also hit an occupation vehicle gathering in the Block 2 area using a barrage of 60mm mortar shells.
The Resistance fighters also detonated a Barq shell targeting an Israeli Merkava in the Abu Zaytoun area, in the Jabalia camp. In the vicinity of Mazaya, also in the Jabalia camp, the Brigades showered IOF gatherings with 60mm mortar shells.
Using anti-infantry Barq shells, al-Quds fighters targeted an Israeli force deployed inside a residential apartment in the Abu al-Aysh Street in the Jabalia camp.
To the east of the city, the fighters targeted IOF soldiers and vehicle gatherings with 60mm mortar shells.
In Netzarim, the al-Quds Brigades carried out two separate operations against IOF soldier and vehicle positions, and a gathering, using high-caliber mortar shells.
Meanwhile, in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza, al-Quds fighters clashed with a special Israeli force after luring it into a house on Salaheddine Street.
The Brigades' Military Media published a video of its fighters sniping an Israeli soldier from the engineering unit in the Israeli military.
سرايا القدس تعرض مشاهد من عملية قنص جندي إسرائيلي يتبع لوحدة الهندسة شرق مدينة غزة.#الميادين #طوفان_الأقصى #غزة pic.twitter.com/3YBKhyNm0q
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 14, 2024
In southern Gaza, particularly in eastern Khan Younis, the Brigades downed an Israeli EVO Max drone and took control of it.
In Rafah, the Resistance faction targeted occupation soldiers and vehicles located near the eastern cemetery using a barrage of 60mm mortar shells.
Using heavy-caliber mortar shells, invading Israeli soldiers and vehicles were also targeted in the vicinity of the Ibn Tayma mosque, in the Brazil neighborhood to the east of the city.
As a response to more than 220 days of the occupation's crimes in Gaza, the al-Quds Brigades showered the Sderot settlement with missiles.
More operations
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, on the other hand, sniped an occupation soldier in the eastern part of the Jabalia camp and targeted an Israeli soldier and vehicle gathering using mortar shells in the Block 2 area.
The Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), detonated an explosive device in a military vehicle during an ambush in the Abu al-Aysh neighborhood in the Jabalia camp.
At the same time, the al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, underwent intense clashes with the IOF, using various appropriate weapons in Jabalia.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine's National Resistance also targeted invading occupation forces using short-range 107 missiles in the al-Zaytoun Neighborhood. It additionally detonated an explosive device in an Israeli personnel carrier in the Brazil neighborhood, while its fighters clashed with an invading occupation force in George Street in eastern Rafah.
The al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, pounded Israeli gatherings near schools in the eastern area of the Jabalia camp, using mortar shells. It also engaged in an intense battle to defend the Jabalia camp, alongside several other Resistance factions, against the IOF.
Israeli military suffers heavy losses
Consequently, the Israeli occupation military admitted that 13 soldiers were injured during clashes or IED detonations in the eastern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, four of whom are in critical condition.
In detail, eight soldiers who fought with the 202 Battalion of the paratroopers' brigade were injured in eastern Gaza, while five others who fought with the Tzabar Battalion under the Givati Brigade were injured in south Rafah when an IED detonated.
Last week, Israeli media revealed that 615 Israeli occupation soldiers have died since the start of the war, with 267 of them dying during the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Regarding injured soldiers, it has been claimed that 3,361 Israeli occupation soldiers have been wounded since the start of the war, including 520 with critical injuries. Currently, 26 soldiers are in critical condition in various Israeli hospitals, 157 others have moderate injuries, and 60 have minor injuries.
In related news, Israeli media reported the deaths of three occupation soldiers on the front with Lebanon, while 40 soldiers and a settler were injured with various injuries during this week.
