Gaza – Ma’an – The Palestinian resistance, with its various factions, continues to confront the Israeli occupation’s incursions, target the occupation’s vehicles and gatherings, and bombard settlements.
On the 294th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, various areas of the Strip witnessed clashes and various targeting of Palestinian resistance factions with the Israeli occupation forces.
First, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it had targeted the invading occupation forces in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, with mortar shells, in addition to its fighters being able to launch a “SAM 7” missile at a helicopter in the city’s sky.
The Al-Quds Brigades also bombarded the Israeli occupation soldiers and vehicles with a barrage of regular mortar shells (60 mm caliber), in the vicinity of Sheikh Nasser Cemetery, and in the vicinity of Al-Dhilal Mosque and the Cultural Center, east of Khan Yunis.
It also announced the bombing of the city of Ashkelon and the settlements surroundin
g Gaza, with a barrage of rockets.
In cooperation with the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the brigades targeted a gathering of occupation soldiers and vehicles that had penetrated the vicinity of Al-Qarara School, northeast of Khan Yunis, with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells.
An Israeli military vehicle was destroyed by detonating a “Thaqib” barrel bomb, which had been previously planted near the Shams Club, in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
As for the Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Forces, they announced that their fighters, in cooperation with the Al-Quds Brigades, were able to target a military vehicle with two RPG shells in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, in addition to targeting the occupation soldiers and vehicles with mortar shells, on the advance axis south of the town of Al-Qarara in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a related context, the occupation army acknowledged, on Friday, the death of a reserve soldier in its ranks, during a battle against the Palestinian resistance in
the southern Gaza Strip.
Under the “Publication Permitted” section, the Israeli “army” explained that the dead soldier was a reserve corporal who worked as an operator of a heavy engineering vehicle in an engineering battalion in the “Givati” Brigade.
The army added that the soldier was killed by an anti-tank missile fired at a D9 bulldozer in one of the battles in the southern Gaza Strip.
Thus, the number of those killed in the ranks of the occupation “army” has risen to 688 soldiers and officers, since the beginning of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle on October 7, including 328 who were killed since the start of the ground battles in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Maan News Agency