Palestinian Resistance Factions Engage IOF in Askalan, Jabalia, Rafah
Palestinian Resistance factions continue to confront the Israeli occupation forces on various fronts of combat in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where they engaged IOF troops and their vehicles in fierce clashes at a close range using various weapons and also bomb gatherings of IOF troops.
Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, announced that it targeted Askalan using a barrage of missiles in response to Israeli massacres against Palestinians.
Jabalia camp
In the northern Gaza Strip, specifically in the Jabalia Refugee Camp, the brigades targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks using two al-Yassin 105 shells on Abu al-Aish Street.
In the Abu Zaytoun area of the camp, the brigades targeted a D9 Israeli bulldozer, also using al-Yassin 105 shell.
In parallel, Al-Qassam Brigades published scenes of its freedom fighters clashing with the IOF troops and targeting their vehicles north of the Gaza Strip.
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Similarly, the fighters of al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, were able to lure a large and special Israeli force into a precise and complex ambush in the city and eliminated it from point blank.
The fighters of the brigades also detonated a Barq device under a D9 bulldozer at dawn today in the Abu Zaytoun area in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
They also sniped an IOF soldier holed up in a building in the same area.
In Jabalia camp as well, the brigades targeted an IOF infantry force along Abu al-Aish Street using a barrage of regular 60-caliber mortar shells.
In addition, the freedom fighters of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades engaged in fierce clashes with IOF troops in the frontline axis in the vicinity of the Abu Zaytoun Schools, east of Jabalia camp.
Clashes between the Resistance and IOF were also renewed east of Jabalia camp.
Rafah
In Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, our correspondent reported that Resistance fighters waged fierce close proximity battles with IOF troops east of the city, with clashes mainly concentrated in al-Salam neighborhood and George Street.
Al-Qassam Brigades announced that they targeted an Israeli troop carrier and an Israeli tank using two Shawaz devices in al-Salam neighborhood east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The brigades also targeted IOF troops present on the Rafah land crossing in the southern Gaza Strip using mortar shells.
They also blew up a house that had been previously booby-trapped, resulting in an Israeli special forces unit’s soldier falling casualty on George Street, east of Rafah.
In addition, Al-Quds Brigades confirmed that it targeted IOF troops and vehicles advancing in the vicinity of the eastern cemetery east of Rafah using a barrage of regular 60-caliber mortar shells.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also targeted IOF troops and vehicles penetrating the axis inside the Rafah land crossing using heavy-caliber mortar shells.
Israeli media also reported that an IOF helicopter landed in a hospital in al-Quds transporting wounded troops from the Gaza Strip.
Day 221: 35,173 Palestinians killed, 79,061 injured in Gaza
Israeli occupation forces committed eight massacres against families in Gaza over the past 24 hours, killing 82 Palestinians and injuring 234 others, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported.
The ministry said that since October 7, the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli war against Gaza has reached 35,173 Palestinians, with 79,061 injured.
Many victims remain under the rubble and on the streets as the IOF prevent ambulances and civil defense crews from reaching them.
