Zionist warplanes bombed the towns of Aabsan, Bani Suhaila, and al-Qarara in the district of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Up north, Zionist artillery units shelled neighborhoods in al-Shujaiya, al-Zeitoun, and al-Daraj in Gaza City. Local reports indicate that a large number of people were martyred in an airstrike that targeted residential buildings in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
Concurrently, the Resistance renewed fierce confrontations to the west of Gaza City, where Resistance fighters continued to push back against invading occupation soldiers in al-Sheikh Radwan and al-Nasr neighborhoods.
Reports state that Zionist naval vessels fired tens of shells at the coastline of the central Gaza Strip, located between Gaza City and Khan Younis.
Our correspondent also reported on intense bombardment in several areas in Jabalia, Beit Lahia, Tal al-Zaatar, and Beit Hanoun all located in the northernmost areas of the Gaza Strip.
In Faluja, Jabalia, our correspondent said Israeli bombs targeted a school currently utilized as a shelter for forcibly displaced people, which led to the martyrdom of several people. Meanwhile, an occupation strike targeted a residential bloc in the Jabalia refugee camp.
The damage caused by “Israel’s” bombing campaigns in the Gaza Strip has approached the UK and US’s years-long bombing of German cities in the Second World War, an article published by the Financial Times revealed.
Rober Pape, a US military historian, and author of Bombing to Win, told FT that Gaza like Dresden, Hamburg, and Cologne “will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns.”
The expert made the remark in reference to the accumulating destruction caused by the aggression in the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 60% of the buildings in northern areas severely damaged, the report revealed, citing analysis conducted by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Heok of Oregon State University.
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bombs and shells have caused damage in seven weeks, which neared that caused by “years-long carpet-bombing of German cities during the Second World war.”
Citing estimates of damage to urban areas, military analysts say the destruction of northern Gaza in less than seven weeks has approached that caused by the years-long carpet-bombing of German cities during the Second World War, the Financial Times said.
According to Scher and Van Den Heok, who depended on satellite radar images, the percentage of severely damaged buildings rises to 70% in certain areas. Moreover, 82,600 to 105,300 buildings in Gaza have been left in ruins. This includes any building where at least half of the structure was subject to damage.
In fact, the news website says the study’s high-end estimate of severely damaged buildings in the northern Gaza Strip reached 68%, which surpasses numbers recorded in Cologne and Dresden. To put these numbers into perspective, in seven weeks the Gaza Strip experienced more damage than German cities did for two long years.
The occupation forces, in true barbaric fashion, also threatened to flood the Resistance tunnels, in order to effectively drown people underground. This would also, likely, kill many Zionist prisoners which is not high on the occupations priority list. It should be noted that the Americans attempted a similar operation in Vietnam to no avail.
Furthermore, the Zionist regime threatened a larger operation against southern Lebanon in response to the heroic resistance efforts of Hezbollah. While the US threatened to organize a larger international occupation force in Gaza in light of the historic guerrilla resistance.
These threats are coupled with the occupation steadily moving further into north Gaza and around Khan Younis.
Resistance Efforts
The military wing of the Hamas Resistance movement, the al-Qassam Brigades, published footage on Wednesday evening showing the Resistance’s fighters confronting occupation forces invading the Shujaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades released never-seen-before footage from the Shujaiya neighborhood, one of the largest neighborhoods in Gaza, where the occupation repeatedly postponed its invasion and initiated it a few days ago.
Shujaiya holds great significance as it is the neighborhood where the occupation soldier Oron Shaul was captured in 2014. Additionally, it houses the Shujaiya battalion, one of the top attack battalions within the Al-Qassam Brigades
The footage shows Al-Qassam fighters moving through the destroyed buildings, approaching closely to tanks, carrying the renowned Yasin-105 anti-tank RPG. They spotted three tanks and launched anti-tank missiles at them.
The fighters targeted the tanks from within the demolished buildings, destroying the vehicles and sending them up in flames. They then targeted a bulldozer passing through the area before attacking another group of tanks.
The occupation forces admitted Wednesday to the killing of a first-class reservist during the ongoing battles in the northern Gaza Strip.
With the death of the soldier, the number of IOF’s casualties in the Gaza Strip has risen to 10 in the last 24 hours.
The IOF have announced the death toll of its forces has risen to 84 since their invasion of Gaza began, bringing the total death toll since October 7 to 408 Israeli soldiers. However, it is widely known that the regime hides its true casualty counts.
The IOF revealed that a deputy company commander in the 53rd Battalion and an IOF soldier in the patrol company in the 6261st Battalion, affiliated with the 261st Brigade, were both killed in battles in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.
The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades – the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – bombarded the settlements of “Kissufim” and “Be’eri” and enemy gatherings east of the Central Governorate with mortar shells and rocket barrages. While Saraya Al-Quds engaged in fierce combat on multiple fronts.
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah announced on Wednesday that it launched several operations on occupationmilitary sites in northern occupied Palestine and the occupied Lebanese territories.
The Resistance fighters launched an operation on the Ruwaisat al-Qarn military site in the occupied Shebaa Farms, Hezbollah announced. The Resistance fighters used precision missiles and caused grave casualties among the Zionists.
The Islamic Resistance also announced that its fighters attacked Israeli military sites in al-Dhayrah, Hadb al-Bustan, and al-Malikiyah, as well as the “Ramim” barracks. All the operations resulted in casualties for the occupation forces.
Hezbollah reported attacking an assembly point of occupation soldiers in Karm al-Tuffah and another in “Tel Shaar”, with both operations causing numerous casualties.
This comes after the occupation forces bombed the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab, al-Qawzah, Tayr Harfa, Maroun al-Ras, and Blida in southern Lebanon.
The occupation also bombed the outskirts of Meiss el-Jabal, Aita al-Shaab, Kounin, and al-Khiam.
All in all, Hezbollah carried out 11 military operations against the Israeli occupation forces.
The Yemeni Armed Forces launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at Zionist military targets in Um Al-Rashrash – “Eilat”, the army spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree said on Wednesday.
In a statement, the General confirmed that the Yemeni forces “will continue to carry out military operations against the ‘Israeli’ enemy and implement the decision to prevent ‘Israeli’ ships from navigating in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and until the aggression against our brothers in Gaza comes to a halt.”
In a separate statement, the Minister of Defense in Yemen’s Sanaa reiterated that the Red Sea remains a theatre of operations for the Yemeni armed forces against Zionist ships until the war on the Strip ends.
“The Red Sea, from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab al-Mandab, has become forbidden territory for the Zionist entity, and any of its ships in the Red Sea will be seized or targeted in support of our people in Gaza,” Major General Mohammed Nasser Al-Atefi said on Wednesday.
“Yemeni naval forces, missile force, and drones are ready to carry out the most severe individual and collective strikes against fixed or moving targets of the Zionist entity in support of our people in Gaza,” he warned.
Yemen also opened the Galaxy Leader ship to tourist visits and locals were seen enjoying their days aboard the vessel.
In Syria, the Resistance attacked the American occupation base in the Conico gas fields with two missiles, while the Ain al-Assad base was attacked with drones in western Iraq.