Pushing the number of dead Zionist soldiers, since the start of the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, to 172, two Zionist reservists were killed on Sunday, as announced by the occupation forces spokesperson.
A Seargent Major of the Yifatch Birgade’s 7810th Combat Engineering Battalion and a Seargent First Class of the 7107th Combat Engineering Battalion were killed in the central and northern Gaza Strip respectively.
On the other hand, multiple Palestinian Resistance factions announced successful operations targeting Israeli occupation forces all over the Gaza Strip. The Resistance targeted ground, naval, and aerial Israeli assets on Sunday, marking a first in the battle, on the eve of 2024.
List of operations on New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve Bombardment
In the first minutes of 2024 the resistance launched a massive barrage of M90 rockets towards the settlement of ‘Tel Aviv,’ and its suburbs. The Iron Dome system, again, failed to prevent several rockets from landing. The resistance proved after 87 days of the Al Aqsa Flood battle they still have the capacity to strike deep into the heart of the occupation.
Aerial assets
Al-Qassam Brigades and al-Mujahideen Brigades revealed that their fighters conducted a joint operation, targeting an Apache helicopter with an SA-7, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile. The Palestinian fighters conducted the operation in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, the Brigades announced on Sunday afternoon.
To the north of Gaza City, in Beit Lahia, al-Qassam fighters captured an Skylark-2 unmanned aerial vehicle, while it was on a reconnaissance mission. The Brigades released a video of the Israeli drone a few hours later, documenting the achievement, which has become a near-daily occurrence for the Brigades.
Naval assets
To the west of Gaza City, near Gaza’s coast, al-Mujahideen fighters targeted a military speedboat with a locally produced rocket launcher, dubbed Saeer.
Captured Equipment
The Brigade, which played a substantial role in attacking occupation sites in the Gaza Envelope on October 7, also published footage of several Zionist weapons. A commander said in a recorded video published on Telegram, that al-Mujahideen fighters were able to capture multiple pieces of military equipment in the past few days, as a result of direct confrontations across the Gaza Strip.
A video was then released showing two M4 A1 assault rifles and a MATADOR anti-fortification recoilless gun, as well as multiple ammunition boxes in the possession of al-Mujahideen Brigades.
Ambushes and direct confrontations
Regarding direct confrontations, fighting concentrated in Gaza City neighborhoods, Khan Younis in the south, and al-Bureij in the central Gaza Strip.
Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades
Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades announced that its fighters ambushed an infantry force to the east of al-Bureij, using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), confirming direct hits.
Al-Quds Brigades
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades, said that its sapper units were able to booby trap a tunnel entrance in the al-Shujaiya neighborhood, to the east of Gaza City. The fighters later detonated the planted explosives, killing and injuring members of a special Zionist force who had arrived at the scene.
An al-Quds Brigades sniper also shot down an Israeli soldier in al-Tuffah neighborhood, in Gaza City.
DFLP
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (DFLP) National Resistance Brigades, confirmed that its fighters were able to target a tank with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), holding a large amount of explosive material, in the Katibah area in Khan Younis, confirming a direct hit.
National Resistance fighters also fiercly engaged occupation forces to the east of al-Maghazi, which is located to the south of al-Bureij. Another group of fighters pushed back against Zionist forces into the east of Khuzaa in the district of Khan Younis, confirming casualties among the enemy’s ranks.
Al-Qassam Brigades
Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades announced that their fighter targeted a total of five tanks in the al-Tuffah and al-Daraj neighborhoods in Gaza City. Fighters used locally produced explosively formed penetrators and tandem RPGs.
In the southern Gaza Strip, al-Qassam fighters targeted an armored bulldozer with an al-Yassin 105mm RPG.
Moreover, al-Qassam mortar and artillery units, as well as units from al-Mujahideen and al-Quds Brigades rained occupation positions in and outside the Gaza Strip with rockets and shells throughout the last day of 2023.