The Palestinian Resistance continues to confront occupation forces invading Gaza, inflicting heavy losses on its soldiers and equipment.
The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing confirmed that it had bombed the Third Eye military sites, with a rocket barrage.
Al-Qassam fighters also ambushed the occupation forces using a mine with a heavy explosive charge planted under a passageway following days of monitoring the occupation forces on al-Bahr street, south of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
Al-Qassam detailed how the Zionist Merkava tank was positioned above the mine when it was detonated, leading to the destruction and death of its crew.
The operations to evacuate the remains of the dead soldiers and the tank’s wreckage continued for several hours.
The Al-Qassam Brigades targeted two Merkava tanks with al-Yassin 105 shells in the al-Shaboura camp in the city of Rafah.
The Zionist crew fled after being targeted in the camp while the brigades pursued them. Several occupation forces were killed at point-blank range in the operation.
The brigades also targeted two Zionist Eitan fighting vehicles with al-Yassin 105 missiles, publishing footage of the vehicles being targeted and its forces being killed with mortar shells in the Taqaddum axis in Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
The al-Qassam Brigades showed footage of the seizure of a Mavic quadcopter in the al-Shaboura camp in westernmost Rafah.
The Zionist command and control site east of al-Zaytoun was bombarded by al-Qassam with heavy-caliber mortar shells, causing direct losses among its ranks as fighters monitored the landing of a Black Hawk and Yasour helicopter to evacuate dead and wounded.
al-Qassam published footage of the al-Zouari suicide drone being launched towards a Zionist gathering in the Holit settlement near Gaza.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, showed scenes of bombing settlements around the Gaza Strip with a rocket barrage.
The al-Quds Brigades engaged in fierce clashes with small arms, grenades, and anti-armor shells with the occupation soldiers and vehicles penetrating the center of the city of Rafah.
It announced targeting a Merkava tank with an RPG shell and destroying another tank with explosives in the al-Shaboura neighborhood in Rafah.
The al-Quds Brigades confirmed that they, in conjunction with the Al-Qassam Brigades, bombed a gathering of occupation vehicles and soldiers in the Shaboura camp in the center of the city of Rafah with a barrage of mortar shells.