On the 158th day of the war on Gaza, various Palestinian Resistance factions continue to engage in fierce confrontations with occupation forces at multiple axes, especially east of Khan Younis and west of it in the city of Hamad, south of the Strip.
This comes amidst ongoing attempts by occupation forces to fortify their positions and advance toward further locations within the besieged Strip.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced the targeting of two infantry forces in a well-planned ambush at the L Towers complex in Hamad City.
The Brigades mentioned that its fighters engaged the two forces at point-blank range, adding that Zionist helicopters were observed evacuating the dead and wounded soldiers after the ambush.
Al-Qassam targeted a Merkava tank with a homemade al-Yassin 105 shell in the same city.
Al-Qassam fighters also detonated two anti-personnel explosive devices against two infantry forces and engaged their members, resulting in casualties, in the K and J Towers complexes in Hamad City.
Meanwhile, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, claimed responsibility for detonating a powerful explosive device against a Zionist force of six soldiers holed up in an apartment in Hamad City.
Al-Quds Brigades’ fighters shelled Zionist military gatherings with mortar shells in the city center and targeted an Israeli military vehicle and a D9 bulldozer with RPG shells.
The Brigades’ Resistance fighters confirmed after returning from battle zones in the al-Qarara area, north of Khan Younis, that they blew up a house where a special occupation force of seven soldiers was holed up, resulting in casualties.
They also detonated a booby-trapped tunnel in a group of occupation soldiers northeast of al-Qarara.
On its part, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced that its fighters shelled a gathering of occupation forces and their vehicles with a barrage of heavy mortar shells in Hamad City.
In the same city, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades’ fighters engaged a military vehicle with an RPG shell.
Earlier on Tuesday, the occupation military confirmed the killing of one of its soldiers, who was killed and held by the Palestinian Resistance on October 7.
With the latest announcement, the number of occupation troops killed since the start of the war on October 7 now stands at 590.
Huge rocket barrage from Lebanon
The Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah continues five months on to pound Zionist military points and positions alongside the occupied Palestinian-Lebanese border area.
Hezbollah declared on Tuesday that it carried out 13 operations in total against the occupation, including the interception of a hostile drone in Lebanese airspace, publishing footage of its fighters attacking the “Mount Addir” in northern occupied Palestine with a precision missile, with numerous occupation soldiers being seen as fleeing from the area.
In the initial action Tuesday morning, the Resistance fired over 100 rockets at the occupation entity.
The Resistance also launched Burkan rockets toward the “Branit” military site, the Zebdine military site in the occupied Shebaa farms, and the Ruweisat al-Alam military site in the occupied Kfar Chouba Heights.
Furthermore, the occupation forces were attacked at the “Zar’it” barracks, the Jerdah military point, and the Hadab Yarin and al-Raheb military sites, all of which resulted in severe casualties for occupation forces.
The Resistance also conducted operations targeting the Jal al-Alam and Birket Risha reconnaissance sites, dealing extensive damage to the espionage equipment within them.
Moreover, the Resistance intercepted a drone in the airspace of the occupied border area, forcing it to withdraw and head back to the occupied Palestinian territories.
In response to occupation attacks in the vicinity of the city of Baalbek, which led to the martyrdom of civilian Mustafa Gharib on Monday, the Resistance bombed Tuesday the headquarters of the air defense command in the “Kilaa” barracks, the missile and artillery base in “Yoav”, and the artillery positions in its vicinity with more than 100 Katyusha rockets, as was mentioned earlier.
Operations overview
– At 07:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the headquarters of the air defense command in the “Kilaa” barracks, the missile and artillery base in “Yoav”, and the artillery positions in its vicinity with more than 100 Katyusha rockets.
– At 10:15, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the al-Raheb military site with a Burkan rocket.
– At 12:45, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Jirdah military site with a Burkan rocket.
– At 14:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the espionage equipment at the Birket Risha reconnaissance site.
– At 14:25, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the espionage equipment at the Jal al-Alam reconnaissance site.
– At 16:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Jal al-Alam military site with Burkan rockets.
– At 16:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Hadb Yarin military site with Burkan rockets.
– At 16:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Birket Risha military site with Burkan rockets.
– At 16:15, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters intercepted an Israeli drone in the airspace of the border area with occupied Palestine.
– At 16:45, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the “Zar’it” barracks with Burkan rockets.
– At 17:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Branit barracks.
– At 17:55, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Ruweisat al-Alam military site in the occupied Kfar Chouba Heights.
– At 18:05, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Zebdine military site in the occupied Shebaa farms.
Top-tier weapons yet to be unleashed
Last Tuesday, the head of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc in Lebanon, Member of Parliament Mohammad Raad, affirmed that the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon has not yet utilized all its weapons, stating that “the weapons of the great war have not yet been unleashed.”
Raad explained that the Resistance adheres to “precise equations of deterrence imposed on the occupation, which attempts to evade the requirements of the status quo but cannot annul them.”
“When you are strong in facing the enemy and have the means to demonstrate this capability, the other side will surrender, not the other way around,” Raad highlighted. He said that “Israel” is not expanding the war into Lebanon because it is being forced to do so by the Resistance, which has underlined clear responses to breaches in the rules of engagement.
“Deviating from these rules would lead to a major catastrophe,” the Hezbollah MP stressed.
“We exercise patience to avoid a devastating open war, […] where the ultimate loser and [the one that will suffer a strategic loss] would be the Zionist enemy,” Raad underscored.
Hezbollah has launched near-daily operations against Israeli occupation forces since October 8, amounting to more than 1,200 operations that have seen a wide array of targets being hit. The group’s leader have made it crystal clear that Hezbollah fighters will continue to target occupation sites and troops until the aggression on the Gaza Strip ends.
source: Al Mayadeen, Resistance News Network