Watan-The Al-Qassam Brigades presented several new scenes on Wednesday targeting Israeli soldiers and vehicles, including an operation targeting a foot patrol with an anti-personnel shell south of the Zaitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, and another to lure soldiers to a booby-trapped house and blow it up with them inside.
The footage broadcasted by Al-Qassam and circulated by the media showed the Israeli force being directly monitored and then a shell being launched towards them and exploding.
Israeli soldiers torn to pieces
The first scene showed footage apparently taken clandestinely, with several Israeli soldiers seen walking over what appeared to be rubble of buildings.
In a subsequent scene, one soldier is seen kneeling, and a resistance fighter is seen firing a Yassin 105 shell from inside a building towards three Israeli soldiers standing in front of destroyed shops.
They are identified as targets through an inverted red triangle, and in a moment, the three soldiers turn into a mass of fire and debris from the explosion.
Al-Qassam said in a statement about the operation: “After returning from the front lines…our mujahideen report targeting an Israeli foot patrol with an anti-personnel shell, resulting in casualties south of the Zaitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.”
🎥مقاتل من #كتائب_القسام يــحــصُــد قوة راجلة من جنود الاحتلال بقذيفة مضادة للأفراد جنوب #حي_الزيتون في #غزة. pic.twitter.com/APX7LuLT1P
— وطن. يغرد خارج السرب (@watanserb_news) May 15, 2024
Pre-rigged booby trap: Israeli soldiers killed
The second clip documents the explosion of a pre-rigged booby-trapped house with Israeli enemy soldiers inside.
In the footage, two Israeli soldiers are seen on the balcony of a house.
In a subsequent scene, the soldiers are seen grabbing bottled water, while a resistance fighter prepares to remotely detonate the explosives, and shouts of “Allahu Akbar” are heard before smoke billows from the blown-up house.
🎥 #كتائب_القسام تفجر منزلاً مفخخاً بداخله جنود الاحتلال .. مشاهد من معارك شرق #رفح .. pic.twitter.com/R7KDO2uaii
— وطن. يغرد خارج السرب (@watanserb_news) May 15, 2024
12 Israeli soldiers killed
Al-Qassam announced on Wednesday that it had managed to kill 12 Israeli soldiers “in a complex operation” in Block 4 area of Jabalia camp.
Al-Qassam said the occupation withdrew its destroyed equipment with air cover after the soldiers were killed in Jabalia, and reported that it detonated an explosive device on a Merkava tank in Jabalia camp, targeted a military bulldozer with a “Yassin 105” shell, and engaged with an Israeli force holed up in a house in Jabalia.
On May 6, Israel announced the start of a military operation in Rafah, claiming it was “limited in scope,” before the occupation army declared occupying the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, which connects Gaza with Egypt.
Resistance elements valiantly confronted the occupation forces in Rafah, inflicting severe new losses on the invading Israeli forces, as evidenced by the footage released by Al-Qassam in recent days.