A Palestinian resistance fighter stands atop a burning "Israeli" tank on October 7, 2023. Photo: Hani Alshaer/AA/Getty Images.
At least three “Israeli” soldiers were killed in an explosion in Gaza’s besieged northern city of Jabalia on December 23, as a revived Al-Qassam Brigades continues to step up attacks and sophisticated operations against Tel Aviv’s forces.
Pictures released on Hebrew telegram channels showed a helicopter transporting wounded “Israeli” soldiers from Gaza to hospitals in occupied Jerusalem.
Wounded Zionist soldiers were transferred from the Gaza border to hospitals in central occupied Palestine. pic.twitter.com/HOHkP2MdtL
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Meanwhile, Hamas’ armed wing announced several operations against “Israeli” troops in northern Gaza—which has been besieged for over two months in a bid to starve out the resistance and ethnically cleanse the area of Palestinian civilians.
“In a complex security operation, a number of our Mujahideen managed to stab and kill three Zionist soldiers who were on a mission to protect a building where a Zionist force was fortified,” Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Monday.
Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, reported from the field today that in a complex operation in north Gaza’s Beit Lahia, its fighters stabbed and killed 3 Israeli soldiers who were guarding a building containing other fortified forces.
They then proceeded to storm the… pic.twitter.com/ikSxJF2tWW
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“They then stormed the house and killed all members of the Zionist force at point-blank range, seized their weapons, and took out a number of citizens who were detained by the occupation inside the house in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip,” the statement added.
Al-Qassam Brigades announced several other operations against the “Israeli” army in Gaza on December 23, including explosive attacks against tanks and vehicles, and mortar attacks on troops taking refuge in buildings in northern Gaza
The resistance fighters also shot down an “Israeli” quadcopter in the new camp area north of central Gaza’s Nuseirat.
According to a report released by Hebrew news site Walla last week, Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades has recruited around 4,000 new resistance fighters and is adapting to the harsh battles against “Israeli” troops in Gaza.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s Al-Quds Brigades, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and other resistance factions also continue to carry out operations against “Israeli: forces.
“We bombed gatherings of enemy soldiers and vehicles that had penetrated the Al-Mabhouh site east of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip with regular mortar shells (60 mm caliber),” Al-Quds Brigades said on Monday afternoon.
