Watan-On Sunday, cities across the Gaza Strip witnessed fierce clashes and confrontations between Palestinian resistance factions and Israeli occupation forces. The resistance targeted Israeli troop concentrations, vehicles, and surrounding settlements.
In northern Gaza, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades announced that they shelled “enemy forces advancing around the university college, south of Gaza City, with heavy mortars” twice on Sunday. Al-Qassam also confirmed that their fighters had “targeted a Zionist infantry force with an anti-personnel Ra’d explosive device,” causing casualties among the soldiers.
In the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, al-Qassam fighters targeted a fortified Zionist force inside a building with an anti-personnel shell, resulting in casualties. They also engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli occupation forces advancing in the area.
The al-Qassam Brigades targeted a Zionist “Namer” APC with a “Yasin 105” shell and bombarded a gathering of enemy soldiers with mortars. The brigades announced in a statement that they were engaged in “fierce battles at point-blank range with enemy forces advancing south of Tel al-Hawa.”
Al-Qassam also announced that they had sniped two Zionist soldiers, hitting them directly, in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis.
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In central Gaza, the al-Qassam Brigades targeted enemy command posts in the Netzarim axis with short-range Rajum missiles, according to their statement. Al-Qassam also declared that they had “shelled advancing forces in the Juhor ad-Dik area with several mortars.”
The al-Quds Brigades bombarded occupation forces and targeted a helicopter, while al-Qassam targeted a “Namer” APC with a “Red Arrow” missile. The al-Quds Brigades announced their shelling of “Zionist soldiers and vehicles in the Abu Ariban site in the Netzarim axis” with mortars and 107 missiles, and bombarded Zionist soldiers and vehicles “advancing around the Reem Hall south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza” with 60mm mortars. They also targeted a “Zionist helicopter with bursts of gunfire from a machine gun while it was flying at low altitude over the al-Zanna area in the eastern Khan Yunis axis.”
In the south, the al-Quds Brigades targeted a “Zionist military crane and its surroundings in the al-Zanna area in the eastern Khan Yunis axis with heavy mortar shells.” They confirmed that a Zionist helicopter had landed at the site to evacuate dead and wounded soldiers after the crane and its surroundings caught fire. Additionally, resistance fighters bombarded “Zionist soldiers and vehicles advancing in the Bani Suheila cemetery east of Khan Yunis” with standard mortars.
The military media of the al-Quds Brigades reported “bombarding the Nahal Oz military site and Kibbutz with heavy mortars,” and targeting the Sderot settlement and other settlements surrounding Gaza with rocket barrages.
The military media of the al-Qassam Brigades reported that resistance fighters had “targeted a Zionist engineering force on foot with an anti-personnel Ra’d explosive device, causing casualties in the al-Salam neighborhood east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.” They also targeted a Zionist “Namer” APC with a guided “Red Arrow” missile near the al-Hussam Tower in Tel al-Sultan in Rafah. Al-Qassam Brigades published previous footage on Sunday showing their fighters “confronting enemy soldiers and vehicles in the eastern Khan Yunis axis in southern Gaza.”
In this context, the Israeli occupation army acknowledged on Sunday the death of a soldier after he had been critically wounded during battles with Palestinian resistance in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, about a week ago. The army added that the deceased was a sergeant from the Givati Brigade. He had been injured on July 20th by an anti-tank shell in Rafah.
This brings the total number of Israeli military casualties to over 690 soldiers and officers since the beginning of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7th, with more than 330 killed since the start of ground operations, according to Israeli media reports.