Today, Tuesday, the Palestinian resistance continued its confrontation with the Israeli occupation forces that have been waging a ground war in Gaza since last October 27, as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that its fighters had targeted a troop carrier, a Merkava tank, and an Israeli bulldozer with shells. Al-Yassin 105 in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam also announced that it was able to detonate an anti-personnel device against an Israeli occupation army force that had barricaded itself in a house, and then targeted it again with an anti-fortification TPG shell east of the city of Khan Yunis, killing and wounding seven members of the force.
In addition, the Al-Qassam Brigades reported that a D-9 military bulldozer tower was targeted in Al-Mughraqa in the middle of the Gaza Strip with an “Al-Yassin 105” missile and the killing of its crew. The Brigades also broadcast a clip showing the targeting of an Israeli bulldozer in the Tal Al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported the outbreak of violent clashes between the resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in the Tal al-Zaatar area in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Manhattan Tribune obtained pictures of battles in Gaza between Al-Qassam fighters and the Israeli army, which showed Al-Qassam fighters targeting the occupation soldiers and vehicles penetrating the city’s outskirts. It also showed the Israeli army withdrawing a convoy of its damaged tanks and rescuing officers and soldiers.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced that 7 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded after clashes it described as fierce in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza.
Today, the Israeli army acknowledged the killing of 3 of its members, bringing the number of its dead to 9 and its wounded to 29 during the past 24 hours. Israeli media announced that 4 of the nine officers and soldiers were from the elite forces in the army.
The military affairs correspondent on the official Israeli radio revealed that the dead belonged to the elite commando units “Dovdovan” and “Yahlom” and were killed in battles with the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian resistance in the south and north of the Gaza Strip.
This Israeli radio quoted military sources as saying that the army forces are facing strong resistance, and are engaged in fierce and harsh fighting in all the axes in which they operate, specifically the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood and the Jabalia camp to the north.
Rocket bursts
The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for firing a salvo of 12 rockets towards the Kiryat Shmona airport barracks in northern occupied Palestine.
Al-Qassam bombed Greater Tel Aviv with missiles in response to the Israeli massacres against Palestinian civilians.
Sirens sounded in Greater Tel Aviv and dozens of Israeli cities in its southern and eastern suburbs, sending at least 3 million Israelis into shelters and fortified rooms.
The occupation army commented on the new missile attack that, even after 74 days of war, sirens are still sounding in central Israel, and millions of residents are still searching for shelter.
Earlier, Al-Qassam published scenes of rockets being launched towards Israeli areas, and said it was a tribute to the souls of the martyrs of the West Bank.
Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades fighters had previously bombed Tel Aviv more than once since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7.
Since last October 27, the Israeli army has been launching a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, which began in the northern region before expanding to the central and southern regions, amid fierce resistance from Palestinian fighters, according to the admission of Israeli officials who said that the army is paying a heavy price in Gaza.
The Israeli army’s declared human toll since the beginning of the war on October 7 has risen to 464 people, according to its official data.
