Palestinian Resistance fighters are intensifying their rocket launching operations and indirect targeting of occupation forces and settlements in the Gaza Envelope.
After nearly 200 days of the war on Gaza and following intense Zionist attacks on several sectors of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Resistance continues to operate its Rocket Force in the Gaza Strip, dismantling Zionist claims of victory in the northern Gaza Strip.
Just after Thursday midnight, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (PFLP) Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades announced that its Rocket Force launched a salvo of rockets from the central Gaza Strip toward Israeli military groupings to the east of Deir al-Balah. The Resistance factions said that the operation came in response to crimes against the Palestinian people.
Earlier, al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, said that its fighters shelled the “Netsarim” Axis which splits the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City from the rest of the besieged territory’s towns and cities. It said that its mortar units fired large-caliber shells at occupation forces in the Axis.
As for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades, the Resistance faction launched a substantial rocket barrage toward occupied Askalan and the settlement city of “Sderot”, as well as other settlements in the Gaza Envelope. Sirens did go off in northern Askalan at 10:00 pm (local time).
Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades also shelled occupation forces with large-caliber mortar shells, in a joint operation with al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, where mortar units targeted military positions to the east of the central Gaza Strip.
As for ground operations and direct confrontation, al-Qassam fighters reported on two distinct operations that they conducted at an earlier time after they returned from axes of confrontation.
In al-Mughraqa, in the central Gaza Strip, al-Qassam sapper units booby-trapped two tunnel entrances, luring a combat engineering force toward them. Resistance fighters managed to detonate the explosive-laden tunnels, confirming that several soldiers were killed and injured in the ambush.
Another unit was able to detonate a minefield, that they had set up in al-Mughraqa, after an armored force arrived in the area. Several armored vehicles were destroyed in the ambush and multiple crewmembers were killed and injured in the attack.
Resistance in Lebanon
The Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah confirmed that its fighters carried out Thursday 11 operations against occupation military sites and troops along the border with occupied Palestine.
Hezbollah reiterated that the operations were in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their brave and honorable Resistance and in response to the attacks on the steadfast southern Lebanese villages and civilian homes.
The operations came as follows:
- 1- At 12:05 am, Hezbollah fighters engaged an occupation force while it was attempting to retrieve a military vehicle that was attacked yesterday at the “Metulla” site with appropriate weapons, inflicting confirmed casualties among the force.
- 2- Hezbollah fighters engaged occupation soldiers in the al-Malikiyah site with rocket artillery, achieving direct hits.
- 3- At 12:30 pm, Hezbollah fighters targeted troops and military vehicles at the al-Marj site with rocket artillery after careful monitoring and anticipation of their movement, inflicting casualties among them.
- 4- At 2:00 pm, Hezbollah fighters attacked an assembly of soldiers in the “Hanita” forest with rocket artillery, achieving direct hits.
- 5- At 5:00 pm, Hezbollah fighters attacked the Zibdine site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with artillery shells, achieving a precise hit.
- 6- At 5:20 pm, Hezbollah fighters attacked the Roueissat al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Chouba Hills with rocket artillery, achieving an accurate hit.
- 7- At 6:00 pm, Hezbollah fighters attacked an assembly of soldiers in the vicinity of the “Hanita” settlement using rocket artillery, achieving direct hits.
- 8- At 6:20 pm, Hezbollah fighters attacked two buildings used by soldiers in the “Yir’on” settlement in the occupied Lebanese village of Salha with appropriate weapons, hitting them directly.
- 9- At 6:23 pm, Hezbollah fighters attacked a building used by soldiers in the “Menara” settlement with appropriate weapons, hitting it directly.
- 10- At 8:23 pm, Hezbollah fighters attacked the “Beit Hillel” base (battalion headquarters) with Falaq rockets in response to the aggression on the towns of al-Khiam and Kfar Kila, which resulted in the martyrdom of a civilian.
- 11- At 9:45 pm, Hezbollah fighters engaged members of an military technical team while they were maintaining surveillance equipment at the “Ramim” Barracks using artillery shells, resulting in confirmed injuries.
In a related context, the Military Media of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon published footage showing Hezbollah fighters striking the AN/TEQ-37 artillery radar, which detects projectiles and missiles and identifies sources of fire, at the air monitoring unit in “Meron” base in northern occupied Palestine.
The Military Media also published footage of Hezbollah Resistance fighters striking the espionage equipment at the al-Ramtha site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms.
In addition, the Military Media published a video showing Hezbollah fighters striking the command headquarters of the occupation military’s Brigade 91 at the “Biranit” barrac
The media reported a power outage in the “Yuvalim” neighborhood in “Kiryat Shmona” following the launch of a rocket barrage from Lebanon.
A fire alo broke out in a parking lot in the Ma’ayan Baruch settlement as a result of rocket launches from Lebanon.
Hezbollah mourns three Resistance fighters
Hezbollah also mourned three of its Resistance fighters who were martyred while performing their combat duty on the path to al-Quds.
The Resistance fighters were identified as Ali Ahmad Hmadeh (Falah), from the town of Dweir in southern Lebanon, Mohammad Jamil al-Shami (Abu Zahraa), from the town of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon, and Hussein Ali Hazimeh (Sajed), from the town of Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon.