Resistance fighters steadfast in confronting IOF on all Gaza axes
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The Resistance forces in Gaza continue to confront the Israeli occupation and inflict significant personnel and hardware losses on the invading forces.
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Al-Qassam Resistance fighter posing near a destroyed armored Israeli military vehicle in Gaza, screengrab from footage released on December 6, 2023 (Al-Qassam military media)
As the brutal Israeli war on Gaza enters its ninth week, the Palestinian Resistance remains steadfast in confronting invading forces across all fronts and inflicting documented losses on the occupation army.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced the destruction of an Israeli armored personnel carrier APC in Khan Younis governorate using a Shawaz heavy IED, which also resulted in the setting of the military vehicle on fire.
In a statement, the Resistance group also said it targeted in the governorate an Israeli Merkava main battle tank using an al-Yassin 105 shell.
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Meanwhile, Al-Qassam fighters announced successfully targeting four Israeli military vehicles with al-Yassin 105 projectiles in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
In a significant operation, the Resistance revealed it detonated several explosives in a fortified building housing Israeli soldiers east of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood. The statement confirmed that the unit's soldiers were either killed or wounded.
Detailing the execution of the ambush, the statement explained that, after identifying an Israeli occupation force fortified in a school, Al-Qassam fighters planted a network of IEDs within the building, which was later detonated in the invading soldiers.
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Al-Quds Brigades destroys several Israeli tanks on different fronts
On its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, announced the targeting of two Israeli military vehicles with Tandem and regular RPG shells at the Beit Hanoun front line.
The Resistance group also revealed in a statement that its fighters successfully targeted two military vehicles and an Israeli bulldozer using Tandem projectiles in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
Meanwhile, in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza, the Brigades destroyed an Israeli tank with a Thaqeb armor-piercing explosive device and targeted three other tanks with Tandems.
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On the eastern Khan Younis front, the group's Resistance attacked with rockets and mortars the Israeli military formations around the Cultural Center and the Farahin area.
Fighting alongside Al-Qassam and Al-Quds Brigades, the Al-Mujahideen Brigades announced that its fighters engaged in fierce confrontations with Israeli occupation forces infiltrating the Shujaiya and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods.
The Brigades confirmed inflicting direct losses among the invading Israeli infantry and military vehicles.
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![In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had "engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)](https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/media/image/2024/12/21/b4a69f2e-8682-43e4-9d37-49482b304ab3/3.png?v=2&format=webp "In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had \"engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)")
