Watan-The Al-Qassam Brigades and other Palestinian resistance factions inflicted severe losses on the Israeli occupation army on Friday during intense battles in the eastern Rafah area and the Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City. The Israeli army admitted to the killing of 4 soldiers from the Nahal Brigade and the injury of 2 others seriously.
Al-Qassam Brigades aired new footage of major combat operations against the invading Israeli forces in Rafah, surprising the Israeli army with the resilience of the resistance despite seven months of aggression and siege on Gaza.
The footage documented the targeting of Israeli soldiers in fortified positions with high skill, resulting in a significant number of casualties. Other scenes showed the targeting and destruction of Israeli tanks and vehicles, some completely destroyed and others damaged.
Al-Qassam fighters were seen ambushing Israeli forces from above ground and from tunnels, swiftly executing attacks with mortars and safely retreating.
📸من لواء ناحال.. الجنود الأربعة الذين أعلن جيش الاحتلال عن مقتلهم بنيران #المقاومة خلال المعارك في #غزة اليوم #الجمعه pic.twitter.com/tHEr7xcYg7
— وطن. يغرد خارج السرب (@watanserb_news) May 10, 2024
Battles in Rafah
Since early Friday morning, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced a series of operations against Israeli forces in Rafah. They conducted a complex and simultaneous military operation near the Al-Da’wa Mosque east of Rafah, targeting a fortified building where several soldiers were holed up with a TBG shell. They also targeted an armored personnel carrier parked beneath the building with a Yassin 105 shell and attacked a group of soldiers near the carrier with an anti-personnel shell, resulting in casualties among the soldiers.
Additionally, they announced the ambush of an Israeli force after detonating a pre-prepared minefield inside the Saad Sayil barracks east of Rafah, resulting in casualties among the soldiers.
The Al-Qassam Brigades managed to destroy two Israeli tanks and a personnel carrier with Yassin 105 shells in the vicinity of the Saad Sayil barracks south of Gaza.
They also blew up a tunnel entrance on an Israeli engineering force, causing casualties, and seized some equipment belonging to the force near the Saad Sayil barracks.
The Al-Qassam Brigades shelled the Kerem Abu Salem military site east of Rafah, south of Gaza, with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
In collaboration with the Al-Quds Brigades, they targeted a gathering of invading soldiers and vehicles east of the Saad Sayil barracks with mortar shells.
🎥جانب مما تفعله #كتائب_القسام بجيش الاحتلال في #رفح. pic.twitter.com/0762wDYnVm
— وطن. يغرد خارج السرب (@watanserb_news) May 10, 2024
Zaitoun Neighborhood: Sniping, Clashes, and Helicopter Targeting
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced several operations carried out by its fighters in the Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City, confirming fierce clashes with invading enemy forces south of the neighborhood.
They destroyed an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with a Yassin 105 shell, in addition to sniping an Israeli officer and injuring him directly south of the Zaitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Brigades targeted a gathering of enemy soldiers south of the Zaitoun neighborhood with several mortar shells, while jointly with the Ansar Brigades, they targeted an Israeli helicopter east of the Zaitoun neighborhood with a SAM-7 missile.
In collaboration with the Martyr Jihad Jibril Brigades, they shelled enemy forces stationed in the Nitzarim axis with 114mm rocket launchers.
Notably, the Al-Qassam Brigades shelled the city of Be’er Sheva today with two rockets, while the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that 15 rockets were launched from Rafah today at Be’er Sheva and its surroundings.
Meanwhile, Israeli Channel 14 reported that Hamas is launching rockets at Israel with the same intensity as in the early weeks of the war.