The Palestinian Resistance continues to confront invading occupation forces and launch retaliatory rocket attacks on envelope settlements and military sites, amid a recent invasion of Rafah in the southernmost Gaza Strip, most recently announcing they managed to snipe a Zionist soldier.
Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades announced that it targeted Zionist gatherings at the Karam Abu Salem Military Site using a 114 mm short-range Rajum missile system.
Al-Qassam also targeted an infantry force west of the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City, with mortar shells.
Concurrently, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (PFLP) Martyr Abu Ali Moustapha Brigades fired a large barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells at occupation forces positioned on the Netzarim Axis, which splits the northern Gaza Strip from the rest of the besieged territory.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, published scenes documenting the demolition of soldiers and occupation vehicles penetrating east of Rafah.
In turn, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades confirmed targeting the occupation and their vehicles in the vicinity of the airport and the al-Shoka neighborhood, east of Rafah, with regular and heavy-caliber mortar shells.
The Brigades announced that its fighters targeted a Zionist vehicle with an RPG shell in the east of Rafah, confirming a direct hit.
Occupation soldier sniped east of Rafah
Meanwhile, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (DFLP) National Resistance Brigades, Omar al-Qasim forces confirmed sniping an occupation soldier in the east al-Shoka area.
The front’s spokesman, Abu Khaled, announced that the artillery unit of the forces targeted soldier gatherings east of the Rafah crossing, with several short-range missiles, causing heavy losses among them.
Abu Khaled added, in a military report, that the artillery unit targeted concentrations of occupation forces at the “Soufa” military site with several heavy-caliber mortar shells, causing several casualties.
The Mujahideen Brigades, the military wing of the Mujahideen Movement, claimed responsibility for targeting Zionists stationed in the Netzarim axis with short-range missiles.
While the expert in Palestinian resistance affairs, Hani Al-Dali, spoke to about the developments in the negotiations regarding a ceasefire agreement after the incursion into eastern Rafah.
Al-Dali stressed that Hamas will study its options and will not deal with the current proposal presented before the incursion into Rafah, indicating that things will change according to new developments.
He disclosed that the head of the occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu, has brought things back to the very beginning, in an attempt to implement his deadly plan in Rafah, avoiding the great defeat he suffered in Gaza, stressing that he has yet to achieve his goals in 7 months.
As for the Netzarim axis, Al-Dali confirmed the presence of the US Forces there alongside the Zionist forces, adding that the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had received information about the intention of the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian resistance to target American forces.
Al-Dali also noted that the al-Qassam Brigades through their posts, sent a message to families of Zionist captives, alerting them that an invasion into Rafah ends the chances of their children remaining alive.
Hezbollah launches large scale attacks
The Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah announced Wednesday that it launched numerous operations against the occupation forces, inflicting extensive damage on the Zionist and their positions in northern occupied Palestine.
Hezbollah bombed a house used by the occupation forces as a shelter in the settlement of Metula and another one in the settlement of al-Manara. A similar operation took place in the settlement of Shlomi, wherein the Resistance bombed two houses being used by the occupation for military operations.
The Resistance continued bombing evacuated buildings used by soldiers, wherein two buildings were bombed in Hanita and another two were bombed in Avivim.
The Resistance launched precision missiles at the Raheb military site, engaging espionage equipment at the site and destroying it.
The Resistance also launched precision missiles and artillery strikes at the Malikiyah site, inflicting human and material casualties.
The operations continued throughout Wednesday afternoon as the Resistance bombed the headquarters of the Western command in the settlement of Yaara. This was another complex operation using attack drones.
The Resistance also bombarded the headquarters of Unit 91 in the Branit barracks and the Summaqa military site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Chouba Hills. Reports state that the attack occured shortly after security minister Yoav Gallant left the Branit site, sending a clear message to Zionist decision makers.
In total, Hezbollah launched 12 attacks today; more than average with increasing complexity and lethality.
Extensive damages
Within occupied Palestine, Zionist media outlets acknowledged the paramount damage dealt to buildings attacked by Hezbollah in the northern settlements.
Zionist media reported that there was a direct strike by a missile in Metula, which did not activate the emergency alert system.
The Zionist media indicated that a rocket fired from Lebanon landed at the Goma junction, in the Upper al-Jalil, which led to the closure of the road to traffic and pedestrians.
One projectile landed in Moshav Gorn, while sirens sounded in the settlements of Shtula, Zarit, Shomra, and Even Menachem.
Meanwhile, the sounds of explosions were heard along the northern coastline, from Haifa to Nahariya and its surroundings, and smoke plumes were seen from afar.
In parallel, Zionist attacks on southern Lebanese villages continue, with the Israeli airforce bombarding Aita al-Shaab, Jabal Blat, Ramia, Tel al-Nahhas on the outskirts of Kfar Kila, al-Rayhan Heights, and Iqlim al-Tuffah Heights.
Balance of terror
A new balance of terror has emerged in the North, one that the Zionist cannot live with even for a “single hour,” an op-ed published by Zionist newspaper Maariv on Tuesday said.
Avi Ashkenazi, the military correspondent of the newspaper, recalled in his piece the course of confrontation, the balance of combat, and the rules of engagement between Hezbollah and the occupation since before the withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.
“Any solution in the North requires decision-makers in ‘Israel’ to work on dismantling this balance of terror,” the author began by warning.
According to the Ashkenazi, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was able, before the Zionist withdrawal, and over the years, to create engagement rules in his favor in the “security belt in Lebanon,” where “he decided that every ‘Israeli’ attack on a civilian target would lead to rocket fire on Kiryat Shmona and settlements in the Galilee,” and that the targets of the rocket launches varied between “open areas and inhibited ones.”
Later, this led to the debate within the occupation entity about the withdrawal to intensify, he said.
The “Four Mothers” movement led a campaign calling for withdrawal from Lebanon without any agreement, on the grounds that the Zionist soldiers’ operations in the “security zone” were not to defend the settlements but to protect themselves, their positions, and their transportation routes. In exchange for presenting a bleak military picture regarding the ability to secure a high level of security for the settlements in the event of withdrawal.
Meanwhile, Sayyed Nasrallah, who saw the internal disagreements and caught statements about an imminent withdrawal, decided to capitalize on his regional power.
Weeks before the withdrawal, Zionist shelling hit a civilian house in southern Lebanon, Ashkenazi said. Following the aggression, Hezbollah struck Kiryat Shmona without warning, and “previous constraints by the rules of the game” set by Sayyed Nasrallah himself, led to intensive missile barrages during the Zionist holiday season while the market was bustling with people, immediately emptying the settlement’s streets, turning it into a ghost town for weeks, also leading to a decision to end the school year.
Sayyed Nasrallah succeeded weeks before the withdrawal in changing the balance of terror between the occupation and Hezbollah, the author said. Since then, the boundaries of deterrence between the two sides have been tested more than once through the capture of the Zionist soldiers in the occupied Shebaa Farms in July 2006, as well as in other operations, then “came the Second Lebanon War, which, according to Nasrallah himself, changed the equation he tried to develop and maintain.”