The Palestinian Resistance in Gaza continues to engage in fierce battles with Zionist invading forces across the Strip as the brutal war enters its 109th day.
Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the operation that shook the occupation regime on Monday, which led to the killing of 24 officers and soldiers; the highest one-day toll since launching the aggression on Gaza.
In a statement, the Resistance group said its fighters targeted a building in the Al Maghazi refugee camp where an engineering unit had fortified, which resulted in the explosion of ammunition and explosives leading to its complete collapse over the force stationed inside.
Simultaneously, the fighters targeted and destroyed, using an Al Yassin 105 shell, a Merkava tank that was tasked with covering and protecting the Israeli unit positioned in the building, the Resistance’s statement read.
According to the occupation army’s spokesperson, the Zionist troops were killed 600 meters away from the separation fence as they were preparing to demolish several Palestinian homes to establish a “buffer zone”.
In another operation, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced successfully seizing three drones, including two suicide drones of the Maoz model, south of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
Similarly, the Resistance group published a video showing images of a Matrix 600 drone its fighters took control of while it was conducting a reconnaissance mission east of Jabalia.
“Meron” base in northern occupied Palestine comes under attack
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah targeted the “Meron” Air Traffic Control Base, for the second time this year, in response to Zionist assassinations in Lebanon and Syria.
In a statement, Hezbollah announced that it launched a large number of rockets and missiles toward the “Meron” military Air Traffic Control Base, located atop al-Jarmaq Mountain.
Zionist media outlets said the power was cut off in several settlements near the “Meron” settlement around 8 km away from the Zionist withdrawal line. Sirens were sounded in several areas in Central al-Jalil, while Zionist media outlets said at least 15 anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) hit sites in the occupied al-Jalil.
The attack preceded a meeting of the occupation war cabinet, which is supposed to be held in the northern settlements, where the head of the colonial outposts, located on the frontlines, are supposed to meet with members of the Zionist cabinet in an extraordinary session.
The new attack on “Meron” followed another operation launched on January 6, where Hezbollah fighters launched 62 projectiles, including 22 long-range improved ATGMs at the site, in response to the aggression on the Southern Suburb of Beirut, in which martyr Saleh al-Arouri was assassinated.
The “Meron” Air Traffic Control Base, is the only Zionist site in occupied northern Palestine, which is capable of wide-scale command and control operations of the Zionist Air Force.
Moreover, the site includes several high-tech and state-of-the-art radar systems, including early-warning systems and equipment that is able to more accurately detect low-flying objects, such as drones or cruise missiles.
Following the January 6 attack, Hezbollah published video footage showcasing the accuracy of the attack on the base, in which multiple rockets surpassed occupations defense systems and landed in and around the site, while around 82% of the ATGMs dealt precise hits to the intended targets in the base. Soon after the first operation was conducted, the Zionist military launched several moored balloons equipped with radar systems to make up for those damaged or destroyed by Hezbollah.
Although the occupation maintained a high level of secrecy regarding the incident, Hezbollah’s documentation of the event forced wider media coverage.
Red Sea blockade continues admist US aggression
The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that the navy had carried out a military operation during which it launched missiles at the American military cargo ship Ocean Jazz in the Gulf of Aden.
Saree declared that this operation was in support of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and in response to the Zionist occupation’s aggression against civilians.
He also stressed that the response to the American and British attacks is inevitable, and that “any new aggression will not go unpunished.”
“The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm their continued efforts to prevent ‘Israeli’ ships, or ships heading to the ports of occupied Palestine until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted,” the Yemeni spokesperson underlined.
This comes in the wake of sustained aggression by the United States and Britain on Yemen, coupled with their ongoing militarization of the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab, emphasizing that these actions pose a “real and serious threat to international navigation.”
The Yemeni Armed Forces have escalated their operations, targeting US-owned ships in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday and Thursday, Sanaa has promised a wider-scale response to the US-led violations in Yemen.
In response to this action against the US cargo ship, the American regime attacked Yemen yet again with a series of air strikes.
Iraqi resistance strikes Zionist port and US base
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced on Tuesday that it had targeted the port of ‘Ashdod’ in the occupied territories with drones. It reiterated its unwavering commitment “to destroy enemy strongholds,” as part of its ongoing approach to resist the occupation and support the people of Gaza.
This comes after the US occupation forces in Syria were attacked on Monday twice within hours as missiles struck the US occupation’s Conico gas field base.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced that it attacked Sunday the American bases of al-Omar and al-Shaddadi fields deep in Syria, using drone strikes.
In Syria reports claimed that sounds of explosions were heard from inside the American base in the city of al-Shaddadi, south of al-Hasakah Governorate, noting that the US air defense systems attempted to repel the attack.
Reports also state that the “Green Village,” which contains the housing of American forces at the base of the al-Omar oil field in the Deir Ezzor countryside, was also targeted.
The Islamic resistance in Iraq announced in a statement that the group also targeted the Ain al-Assad US base in Iraq’s Anbar province twice in two separate operations on Tuesday.
The party confirmed that these attacks were in continuation of the Resistance against the US occupation in Iraq and the region and in response to the Zionist entity’s massacres against the people of Gaza.
In a significant operation, the Islamic Resistance struck the Ain al-Assad base last Saturday with 10 heavy missiles, in what was described as the largest and most intense attack against a US base since the group launched its operations in support of Gaza last October.
Since October 17, the Resistance group has carried out 151 attacks on US occupation bases in Syria and Iraq. The operations resulted in the injury of over 70 American soldiers.
Later tonight American warplanes bombed a site in Jurf Al-Nasr in southern Baghdad, Iraq. At least five explosions were heard and it appears the military college was targeted. A second bombing targeted the Qa’im border crossing on the Iraq-Syria border, targeting the Popular Mobilization Forces headquarters. Two PMF members were killed in the aggression.
Secretary-General of the Sayyed Al-Shuhada Brigades in the PMF stated blamed “the criminal American occupation” for its aggression, adding that “the second phase of their blessed operations, which includes imposing a siege on the Zionist maritime navigation in the Mediterranean Sea and disabling the ports of the usurping entity from service” should commence soon, “until the unjust siege on Gaza is lifted.”
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