The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced that its fighters targeted on Thursday the Zionist-occupied port of Haifa in Palestine using drones. In a brief statement, the Iraqi Resistance said that the operation comes in continuation of its approach to resisting occupation and in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and in response to the massacres committed by the Zionist occupation entity against Palestinian civilians.
The statement reaffirmed the Resistance’s “commitment to continue targeting the enemy’s strongholds.”
The latest operation carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq comes a couple of days after the Secretary-General of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah, Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi, announced that the group has suspended its operations against US forces in Syria and Iraq so as to not go against the wishes of the Iraqi government.
Later, the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Advisor for Foreign Affairs, Farhad Alaadin, indicated that the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah’s decision came in the wake of days of extensive talks with premier Mohammad Shia al-Sudani regarding the issue.
But one week ago, the Secretary-General of the Iraqi Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Abu Alaa al-Walai announced in a post on X that the Iraqi Resistance had transited to the second phase of its operations in which it will work on enforcing blockading Mediterranean maritime routes to the Zionist-occupied ports in occupied Palestine.
Al-Walai explained that the second phase of operations would include the enforcement of a blockade on “Zionist maritime navigation in the Mediterranean” and “putting [the occuations] ports out of service.”
The Iraqi Resistance has proved that it has the capabilities to target the occupations ports located on the Mediterranean coast. It has also launched multiple attacks on Zionist sites in the occupied Syrian Golan and the occupied port town of Um al-Rashrash or “Eilat”, as referred to by the occupiers.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced targeting a military bulldozer of type D9 with an al-Yassin 64/105 mm tandem rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) in Tal al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.
Al-Qassam snipers shot an officer in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, prompting the occupation military to later confirm the killing of an officer in the Shaldag Unit. The spokesperson for the occupation forces announced that an officer serving under the Air Forces’ Shaldag Unit was killed on Wednesday in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Shaldag Unit is one of the occupation military’s top special units and is headquartered in the “Palmachim” Airbase, around 45 km to the north of Gaza City.
Recruits selected to undergo training for the Shaldag Unit are expected to have exceptional scores and abilities and are secured to have passed the initial commando units selection day, in the recruitment process. These recruits then undergo the most extensive and longest training phase of any Zionist unit, which lasts for 22 months.
Troops of the units are equipped with six months of basic and advanced infantry training, parachuting practice, airborne practice, and intelligence gathering and reconnaissance skills.
This is done to ensure that members of the Shaldag Unit are able to complete commando missions deep within enemy lines, in which they are expected to deploy undetected into combat environments, to complete a flurry of objectives.
Troops such as Major Yitzhar Hoffman, who was killed by the Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip, are expected to conduct special reconnaissance operations, establish airfields, and conduct air traffic actions.
This elite unit is responsible for numerous crimes in Gaza and Lebanon as well, as it participated in several aggressions against Lebanon, including the Seven-Day War on Lebanon in 1993, the April Aggression in 1996, and the 2006 July War.
The Palestinian Resistance adds another name to the list of 224 Israeli troops killed in the Gaza Strip since the occupation entity launched its ground invasion in late October 2023. Among the units and brigades that suffered casualties are the infamous Golani Brigade, Yahalom Unit, Egoz Unit, and Maglan Unit.
This raises the number of Zionist troops announced dead today to four, including two officers. Additionally, at least five soldiers were injured by the Resistance in the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, Al-Qassam Brigades said its Resistance fighters destroyed a Zionist Merkava 4 tank with an al-Yassin shell southwest of Gaza City and targeted another west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam’s mortar units also targeted occupation military gatherings advancing into the northern Gaza Strip.
On its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, confirmed its fighters engaged in fierce confrontations using machine guns and anti-tank missiles with occupation soldiers and their vehicles in the al-Sabra axis and Tal al-Hawa.
Al-Quds Brigades said its Resistance fighters targeted military gatherings and vehicles with mortar shells and Badr 1 and 107 rockets in the eastern, southern, and western axes of Khan Younis city.
The Brigades’ fighters targeted a group of occupation soldiers fortified in a building with a 107 rocket in the northwestern axis of the central Gaza Strip.
Additionally, the Resistance fighters targeted occupation soldiers and military vehicles with mortar shells in the eastern axis of the al-Bureij camp.
The martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), confirmed that its artillery units targeted occupation military vehicles and troops with mortar shells in Khan Younis, while the al-Mujahideen Brigades shelled the occupation military command headquarters and the helipad in “Re’im” with a number of rockets.
The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting the American cargo ship “KOI” that was heading to the Zionist-occupied ports of Palestine with several appropriate naval missiles that directly hit the vessel, the spokesperson for the YAF, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, confirmed on Wednesday.
In a statement, Saree said the operation came in triumph to the oppressed Palestinian people amid the ongoing Zionist aggression and in response to the American-British aggression on Yemen.
He added that the operation took place just hours after the naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the American destroyer USS Gravely with several anti-ship missiles in the Red Sea, confirming that the strike was direct and accurate.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) had earlier claimed that the destroyer shot down an anti-ship missile fired from Yemen toward the Red Sea and that no injuries or damage were reported.
The latest Yemeni announcement nips in the bud CENTCOM’s claim and an earlier CNN report that cited four US officials as saying that a Yemeni missile came within one mile of USS Gravely before it was able to shoot it down.
The CNN report claimed that the attack on USS Gravely was the closest a YAF attack has come to a US warship in a series of attempts to hit US warships in the Red Sea. However, on January 25, Saree confirmed a confrontation with several US destroyers and warships in the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab.
Back then, the spokesperson for the YAF confirmed that the results of the confrontation included “directly hitting an American warship and forcing two American merchant ships to retreat and return.”
The Yemeni Armed Forces employed “a number of ballistic missiles” in the operation that lasted for more than two hours, he specified, revealing that a number of these missiles reached their targets, despite the attempts of the warships to intercept them.
On Wednesday, Saree affirmed that the Yemeni Armed Forces persist with their military operations: enforcing a blockade on Zionist navigation in the Red and Arabian seas until a ceasefire is achieved, and food and medicine are allowed into the besieged Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip.
The Brigadier General underlined that the Yemeni Armed Forces will confront the American-British escalation with escalation and will not hesitate to carry out wide and qualitative military operations “in response to any American or British foolishness against Yemen.”
Elsewhere, Saree reiterated that all American and British ships in the Red and the Arabian seas are legitimate targets for the Yemeni Armed Forces as long as the two countries’ aggression on Yemen persists.
Resistance in northern Palestine forces withdrawal
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah launched yet another series of operations in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
Initially, Hezbollah’s fighters targeted a grouping of occupation soldiers, positioned in al-Tayhat Hill opposite the Lebanese town of Mays al-Jabal in al-Jalil Panhandle. The Resistance confirmed a direct hit to the intended target at 9:35 am.
Later in the afternoon, marking the most significant operation of the day, the group targeted a Merkava tank, positioned in the Israeli Bayad Blida military site, opposite the Lebanese town of Blida, in the same area as the aforementioned site, in the eastern district of operations.
Hezbollah said the tank was targeted and directly hit by its fighters who utilized the “appropriate weapons” for the mission, at 1:35 pm.
At 2:45 pm, the Resistance destroyed several pieces of spyware and military-grade hardware at the “Hanita” military site, in the western district of operations.
Less than half an hour later, Hezbollah fighters targeted a grouping of soldiers, positioned in the vicinity of the “Mattat” military site.
At 3:50 pm, Hezbollah launched an attack on a number of soldiers that had taken positions in a building in the “Metulla” settlement, which is located on the northernmost point of al-Jalil Panhandle, opposite the Lebanese town of Kfar Kila, marking yet another precise hit.
A few hours later, at 9:00 pm, Hezbollah fighters launched a Falaq-1 missile and directly hit the Jal al-Allam site.
Under the continuous attacks of Hezbollah fighters and the heavy losses inflicted upon its units, the occupation army found itself obliged to withdraw troops from some northern settlements due to the Lebanese Resistance group’s operations.
The Israeli army decided to lower the number of troops stationed in northern Zionist settlements close to Lebanon border on Wednesday, according to sources.
‘Metulla’ council enraged
Just earlier, David Azulai, the head of the “Metulla” settlement council, publicly announced that 130 out of 650 residential units housing settlers in the colonial outpost have been damaged since Hezbollah’s operations began in the north, as per Zionist Channel 12.
“There are entire streets in Metulla that cannot be entered or walked through during the day for fear of Hezbollah rockets,” Azulai said, adding that “government ministries mistreat us on a personal level.”
In fact, Hezbollah has launched multiple attacks on settlements near the Lebanese-Palestinian border, in response to attacks on Lebanese civilians in border towns. Among those settlements heavily targeted by the Resistance are “Metulla” and “Kiryat Shmona,” which are both located in al-Jalil Panhandle.
It is worth noting that the majority of settlers in these areas have fled their colonial outposts, as Zionist troops have repurposed multiple residential buildings for their use.
Wednesday’s operations follow another five operations launched on Tuesday and 13 distinct attacks launched on Monday.
The Resistance has pledged to support Palestinians until the aggression on the Gaza Strip comes to an end.
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Al Mayadeen, Resistance News Network, al Manar, and Al jazeera