Shortly after the first anniversary of Operation al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinian Resistance forces in Gaza continue to confront Zionist forces entrenched across various battlefronts, particularly in Jabalia to the north, where the Zionist military launched a new incursion a couple of days ago, despite previous claims of having “eliminated” the Resistance in the area.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, executed a sophisticated ambush against Zionist forces east of Jabalia refugee camp, resulting in multiple Israeli casualties.
The Brigades managed to entrap a mechanized infantry unit consisting of 12 military vehicles and a truck loaded with soldiers in the ambush. As soon as the convoy reached the ambush point, the Brigades targeted a soldier-laden truck with a “Shawaz” explosively formed penetrator(EFP) and a Humvee with a thunder explosive, while hitting another jeep with a Tandem rocket.
Following the initial strikes, al-Qassam fighters advanced toward the ambush area and eliminated the remaining soldiers at close range using light weapons. Additionally, they targeted a group of soldiers who fled toward a nearby house with an anti-personnel explosive.
As part of the same ambush, the Brigades also targeted two Merkava tanks with a Tandem rocket and a “Shawaz” EFP after they arrived with a reinforcement unit.
The Zionist military command has admitted that three of the troops targeted in the attack were killed. In an initial toll, three commanders in the Aminisrtative Assistance Unit 5460 of the 460th Armored Brigade were announced dead. This includes three commanders, serving in the training formation.
In a separate operation east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the al-Qassam Brigades struck a reconnaissance patrol of two vehicles and four soldiers using a kamikaze drone.
Meanwhile, the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades shelled military vehicles stationed east of Jabalia camp with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
In parallel, the al-Mujahideen Brigades released footage documenting their targeting of a group of Zionist soldiers with heavy-caliber mortars in Jabalia, achieving direct hits.
In coordination with other Resistance factions, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Omar al-Qassem Forces, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, targeted Israeli forces east of Jabalia refugee camp. The operations was carried out in retaliation for Zionist crimes and in defense of both the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.
Hezbollah batters Zionist forces
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah announced Thursday a new series of operations its fighters carried out “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their valiant and honorable resistance and in defense of Lebanon and its people.”
The operations saw the Islamic Resistance launching rockets at Israeli troops in positionings in occupied territories and at occupation forces advancing in Lebanese towns.
Hezbollah’s 20 operations came as follows;
- At 10:00 am, Hezbollah fighters targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement with a large rocket barrage.
- At 10:00 am, in three simultaneous operations, Hezbollah fighters targeted the positionings of Israeli forces near the al-Marj site, in Beit Hillel, and Ma’ayan Baruch with salvoes of rockes.
- At 11:15 am, Hezbollah fighters targeted a positioning of Zionist forces in Kfar Giladi with a rocket barrage.
- At 11:45 am, Hezbollah fighters targeted a tank with guided missiles as it was advancing toward Ras al-Naqoura, destroying it and setting it ablaze and resulting in casualties among its crew.
- At 1:15 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted, with a rocket barrage, a Zionist force attempting to evacuate casualties from the Ras al-Naqoura area, dealing a precise hit.
- At 2:00 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted a positioning of occupation forces in Kfar Giladi with a rocket barrage.
- At 2:03 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted, with a rocket barrage, a Zionist force attempting once again to evacuate casualties from the previously targeted tank in the Ras al-Naqoura area.
- At 2:25 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted the Karmiel settlement with a rocket barrage.
- At 3:00 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted a movement of Zionist soldiers on the al-Majdal Hill in Mays al-Jabal with a rocket barrage.
- At 3:15 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted a positioning of Zionist forces in Khillat al-Shandiba, west of the al-Manara Gate, with a rocket barrage.
- At 3:30 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted an occupation force as it advanced toward the al-Knayseh area between Mays al-Jabal and Mhaibib with a rocket barrage.
- At 3:40 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted a positioning of Zionist forces in Kfar Giladi with a rocket barrage.
- At 3:45 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted the Zevulun area, north of Haifa, with a large rocket barrage.
- At 4:15 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted a positioning of occupation forces near the Yaroun cemetery with a rocket barrage.
- At 4:40 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted a positioning of Zionistforces south of Yir’on with a rocket barrage.
- At 5:00 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted, with a rocket barrage, an occupation force attempting for the third time to evacuate casualties from the previously targeted tank in the Ras al-Naqoura area.
- At 8:05 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted, with a rocket barrage, an occupation force attempting for the fourth time to evacuate casualties from the previously targeted tank in the Ras al-Naqoura area.
- Hezbollah fighters targeted the Yiftach base with a rocket barrage.
The group’s operations come amid an ongoing Zionist aggression across Lebanon, especially the country’s southern and eastern regions, as well as Beirut’s Southern Suburb, which has so far killed more than 1,200 people and displaced millions since September 23.
2,196 people have been killed since October of last year.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s fighters continue to inflict heavy casualties on Zionist troops attempting to infiltrate Lebanese towns from occupied Palestinian territories since the regime announced a “limited ground operation” over a week ago, despite Zionist officials claiming that the group’s capabilities have been reduced during this round of confrontation.
In a related context, the Military Media Unit in the Islamic Resistance published footage showing Hezbollah’s fighters confronting occupation forces’ infiltration attempts along the southern Lebanese border in the eastern sector.
In addition, the Military Media Unit published footage addressing the occupation entity, with the message: “It is not a matter of if you will be hit, it is a matter of when.”
20 Zionist soldiers injured within 24 hours on border with Lebanon
Zionist media reported Thursday that 22 soldiers were injured in 24 hours, 20 of them on the Lebanese border and two in the Gaza Strip.
The Ziv Medical Center in occupied Safad confirmed that it had received seven injured soldiers from battles with Hezbollah at the northern border with Lebanon.
Zionist media mentioned that four injuries were reported following the shelling that targeted the Karmiel area in Central al-Jalil, while a helicopter was directly hit in the Mays al-Jabal area while attempting to evacuate injuries, forcing Zionist ambulances to flee the scene of the incident.
Early Thursday morning, the occupation military admitted to the killing of one of its soldiers and the injury of another in ongoing battles at the Lebanese border.
The military announced that the soldier was from the 228th Brigade and that another soldier from the 5030th Battalion was seriously wounded in the same incident and was transferred to the hospital.
This brings the Zionist military’s acknowledged death toll to 12 soldiers since the start of its announced ground incursion in southern Lebanon, although the Islamic Resistance’s Operations Room confirmed that the occupation forces have suffered at least 35 fatalities and 200 injuries, including elite officers and soldiers.
On Wednesday, the Zionist Channel 12 reported that the senior advisor to Zionist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was injured during battles at the Lebanon border.
The Zionist military also confirmed that two soldiers from Unit 504 and another from Battalion 8207 were seriously injured in the battle in southern Lebanon.
Ansarallah continues targeting ships for naval blockade
The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two military operations in support of the oppressed Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and in solidarity with their Resistance, as well as in response to the US and British aggression on Yemen, announced spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree on Thursday.
The first operation, conducted jointly by the YAF’s missile, UAV, and naval forces, targeted the American oil tanker OLYMPIC SPIRIT in the Red Sea with 11 ballistic missiles and two drones, Saree said, confirming that the strikes were precise and severe.
As for the second operation carried out by the YAF’s missile force, it targeted the ST. JOHN ship in the Indian Ocean with a cruise missile, resulting in a direct hit, the spokesperson mentioned.
According to Brigadier Saree, the ship was targeted after its mother company violated the entry ban imposed by the YAF on the Zionist-occupied ports of Palestine.
The YAF will not cease their operations in the declared naval operational zones until the Zionist aggression and blockade on Gaza and the aggression on Lebanon are ended, the spokesperson underlined.
Touching on the YAF’s naval operations in the Red and Arabian seas, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, pointed out in his speech on the one-year anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood that “one of the important outcomes of Yemeni operations is preventing the Israeli enemy from navigating the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Bab al-Mandab, and the Arabian Sea.”
Iraqi Resistance continues drone strikes and issues warning
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced three operations its fighters carried out against Zionist targets in occupied territories.
The Iraqi Resistance said the operations were “in continuation of our commitment to resisting the occupation, in support of our brothers in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.”
In the first operation, the Islamic Resistance said it attacked at dawn Thursday a vital target in the north of occupied Palestine using drones.
It later confirmed that its fighters launched a second drone attack on a vital target in the North. A picture of Hezbollah’s assassinated chief martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was featured in the footage documenting the operation.
Moreover, the Iraqi Resistance mentioned that it attacked a vital target in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, also using drones.
In all of its statements, the Islamic Resistance affirmed that it will continue to “strike at the enemy’s strongholds with increasing intensity.”
Since the onset of the Zionist war on Gaza, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has been engaged in the support front for the Palestinian people and their Resistance, so far launching numerous rocket and drone attacks on Israeli targets in occupied territories.
Most recently, the Zionist occupation military reported that two of its soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured in a drone strike carried out from Iraq.
The Zionist military spokesperson announced, under the “permitted to publish” clause, that two soldiers from the Golani Brigade, Battalion 13, were killed when a drone launched from Iraq exploded in a military base in the Golan.
An investigation by the Zionist army revealed that the attack involved two explosive-laden drones launched from Iraq. One drone was intercepted by air defenses, while the second struck an army base in the northern Golan Heights a few minutes later, as per the army.
In other news the Iraqi Resistance’s response to any targeting of the country or use of its territory or airspace to strike Iran will not be limited to the Zionist regime but will extend to US bases and interests in Iraq and the region, warned the head of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades Security Bureau.
Abu Ali al-Askari indicated that the Iraqi Resistance will not start a war that involves the energy sector, but if it does break out, the world will lose 12 million barrels per day, “and this is what we will make sure of,” he made it clear.
“This is what we will be taking care of, but only God knows what our brethren in Yemen will do in Bab al-Mandab and our brethren in Iran will do in the Strait of Hormuz,” he further warned.
This comes as the occupation regime has threatened to respond to Iran’s Operation True Promise II, which saw the Islamic Republic launching at least 200 ballistic missiles against Zionist military and intelligence facilities across the occupied Palestinian territories in retaliation for the Zionist assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC General Abbas Nilforoushan.
The missiles fired by the IRGC’s Aerospace Force targeted strategic Zionist military sites, including three air bases in Tel Nof, Nevatim, and Hatzerim.
The IRGC confirmed in a statement that the missile attacks targeted “three military bases” around Tel Aviv, as well as air and radar bases, adding that “90 percent” of the missiles “hit their targets.”
According to the IRGC, the Nevatim base houses the F-35 fighter jets, while the Hatzerim base houses the F-15 fighter jets that were used to assassinate martyr Sayyed Nasrallah.
Satellite images published by the Associated Press (AP) showed the damage to the Nevatim base as a result of the Iranian strikes. The images, taken after the Iranian operation, show a large hole in the roof of a row of buildings near the main runway, while large pieces of debris can be seen scattered around the building.
The statement warned that if tthe Zionist regime acts in response to Operation True Promise II, “it will face violent consequences.”
Although the occupation regime has threatened to respond, Iranian officials have warned that any further action would be met with a harsh, proportional, and calculated response from Tehran.
Al-Askari’s statement also comes after the Zionist Channel 14 recently leaked an image revealing what it described as the “Zionist target list” of prominent regional leaders, which included Iraq’s highest religious authority, Sayyed Ali al-Sistani, who was marked as a “legitimate target.”
It is noteworthy that since the onset of the Zionist war on Gaza, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has been engaged in the support front for the Palestinian people and their Resistance, so far launching numerous rocket and drone attacks on Zionist targets in occupied territories.
Most recently, the occupation military reported that two of its soldiers were killed and 24 others injured in a drone strike carried out from Iraq early a couple of days ago.
The Zionist military spokesperson announced, under the “permitted to publish” clause, that two soldiers from the Golani Brigade, Battalion 13, were killed when a drone launched from Iraq exploded in a military base in the Golan.
An investigation by the Zionist army revealed that the attack involved two explosive-laden drones launched from Iraq. One drone was intercepted by air defenses, while the second struck an army base in the northern Golan Heights a few minutes later, as per the army.