GAZA, (PIC)
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, along with other resistance factions continued to engage in heroic battles confronting Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in their advance axes into the Gaza Strip and hit Greater Tel Aviv with massive missile barrages. Israel acknowledged the killing of two officers and a soldier in addition to the injury of others.
The PIC correspondent reported that sounds of gunfire and explosions were heard in several areas of Jabalia and its refugee camp, in Gaza, and east of Khan Younis, as part of fierce battles taking place with the invading occupation forces.
Al-Qassam fighters sniped a soldier on top of an Israeli military tank in Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip before shelling it with a Tandum missile.
Meanwhile, the fighters of Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades detonated an explosive device in an Israeli Merkava tank in the same area.
Al-Qassam fighters hit a group of Israeli soldiers stationed near a tank in the Al-Mughraqa area with an anti-personnel missile, before engaging in armed clashes with the soldiers, leaving them dead and wounded.
They also hit concentrations of Israeli forces advancing into the areas of Khan Younis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
Al-Qassam Brigades targeted an Israeli force holed up inside a building in the Al-Mughraqa area with an anti-fortification TBG missile, and bombed Tel Aviv with a missile barrage in response to the Israeli massacres against civilians.
Media sources confirmed that large missile bursts were launched from the Gaza Strip hitting Greater Tel Aviv and Herzliya and reaching a depth of up to 100 km from the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Channel 12 said, “A missile batch was launched from the Gaza Strip. We did not see the likes of which in the first days of the war on Gaza. It affected areas in Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Tel Aviv.”
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli authorities disclosed that 35 missiles were fired in two bursts from Gaza towards Greater Tel Aviv.
Al-Qassam Brigades targeted another Israeli tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip.
The Brigades also targeted Israeli forces advancing into east of Khan Younis with mortar shells, and bombed Kibbutz Holit with short-range shells.
In the northern Gaza Strip, Al-Quds Brigades announced that they shot down an Israeli drone and targeted 3 military vehicles with tandom shells in Tal al-Zaatar and the Jabalia camp, killing and wounding a group of soldiers in Sheikh Radwan area.
They also bombed Nahal Oz site and Israeli forces north of the Shati refugee camp and the vicinity of the Civil Administration area with bursts of rocket and mortar shells.
On Thursday, Israeli occupation army announced the killing of two officers and a soldier in addition to the serious injury of 8 other soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll among the Israeli soldiers since the start of “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on October 7 to 469. The number includes 143 Israelis who have been killed since the beginning of the ground operation in the besieged Strip, with 70 of them killed since the collapse of the humanitarian truce on December 1.
Resistance sources affirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities are hiding the real figures of the army losses, adding that the number of deaths and injuries among its forces is much greater than what is announced.
On Wednesday evening, the spokesman for Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, said in a military statement, “Over the past 72 hours, Al-Qassam fighters destroyed 41 vehicles, killed 25 Israeli soldiers, and wounded dozens of soldiers.”
