The military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says its fighters have destroyed scores of Israeli military vehicles and killed over a dozen of the regime’s forces in their latest operations.
Abu Obaida, the spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades, made the announcement in a statement on Monday.
Over the past four days, he said, al-Qassam’s fighters have managed to kill at least 16 Israeli forces and partially or completely destroy 71 Israeli military vehicles in 42 military missions.
The missions, Abu Obaida said, involved targeting the regime’s troops with anti-personnel ammunition and explosive devices such as booby traps and landmines, as well as engaging the enemy’s forces in close-range combat and sniper operations.
Noting that Palestinian fighters also targeted an Israeli helicopter in the skies over the Gaza Strip, Abu Obaida added, “Our fighters downed two reconnaissance drones and captured another.”
Most recently, the Israeli army reported the killing of an officer in the northern Gaza Strip, saying that the fatality brought the death toll among the regime’s forces to 507 since October 7, when Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza started.
Abu Obaida added that al-Qassam’s fighters have also targeted the coastal city of Tel Aviv in the occupied territories with a barrage of M90 rockets.
“They also shelled [Israeli forces’] headquarters, field command rooms, and military gatherings with mortar shells and short-range missiles across the Gaza Strip,” he said.
The regime began the its military aggression against Gaza following an operation by the territory’s resistance movements, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm.
Close to 22,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the regime’s onslaught so far.
Also on Monday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas’ fellow Gaza-based resistance movement, vowed that Palestinian resistance groups would not hesitate to stand up to the Israeli aggression.
“We affirm that we will continue to confront this war of extermination and displacement, and we rely on the awareness of our people and the bravery of the fighters in the field to thwart” Israel’s criminal plans, the movement said.
