Gaza Resistance stuns IOF with ambushes on 140th day of war

 February 24, 2024

Source: Al Mayadee

A screen grab video published by the al-Qassam Brigades showing an Israeli Merkava tank moments before it was targeted by Resistance fighters with an al-Yassin 105 shell southwest of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City (Military Media of the al-Qassam Brigades)

By Al Mayadeen English

The Palestinian Resistance factions in Gaza continue to confront the raiding Israeli occupation forces across several areas in the besieged Strip.

In recent hours, the battlefronts in Gaza witnessed intense confrontations with Israeli occupation forces and consecutive operations by the Palestinian Resistance factions, specifically in the central and southern parts of the besieged Strip.

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that its Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an al-Yassin 105 shell southwest of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Al-Qassam fighters also ambushed an Israeli infantry force along the advance axis in the city of Khan Younis, causing casualties among the occupation forces.

On its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, announced that its fighters engaged an Israeli military vehicle with an RPG shell in southern Gaza.

The Brigades’ Resistance fighters also shelled Israeli occupation forces gathered in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City with mortar shells.

In Khan Younis, the Al-Quds Brigades confirmed ambushing an Israeli unit along the advance axis, causing casualties among the raiding forces, and mentioned targeting an Israeli military vehicle with an RPG shell in the camp area west of the city.

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In a joint operation, the al-Mujahideen and the al-Quds Brigades’ snipers targeted several Israeli occupation soldiers stationed in their military vehicles near the al-Tiba Towers, west of Khan Younis.

In a related context, the al-Quds Brigades carried out operations in the Abasan al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis, including ambushing an Israeli engineering unit and a bulldozer, as well as detonating several barrel bombs.

The Brigades also engaged a Merkava tank with a Tandem shell and inflicted casualties on the raiding occupation soldiers.

Similarly, Martyr Omar al-Qassam Forces, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), announced that its fighters targeting Israeli occupation forces with an RPG shell in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City and an explosive device in Khan Younis.

Elsewhere, the Al-Mujahideen Brigades published footage of its Resistance fighters targeting Israeli occupation forces holed up in a building in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood with a Saeer rocket.

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