[News] Gaza Resistance inflicts major losses on invading Israeli forces

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Gaza Resistance inflicts major losses on invading Israeli forces
Al Mayadeen English
February 4, 2024
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The Palestinian Resistance attacks Israeli assembly points and advancing
forces amid the encirclement of Gaza City.
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   - Bombing of Israeli occupation positions by the al-Quds Brigades (the
   military media wing of the Islamic Jihad movement)

The Palestinian Resistance on the 120th day of Operation al-Aqsa Flood
confronted the invading Israeli occupation forces from numerous directions
in Gaza City.

The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, announced that they attacked
three Israeli Merkava tanks using the notorious Yassin-105 anti-tank RPG in
the southwest of Gaza City.

Al-Qassam's fighters targeted a group of Israeli soldiers that had been
using a residential home for fortification with an anti-fortification TBG
shell, with numerous fatalities and injuries recorded.

Al-Qassam's fighters sniped an Israeli soldier in the vicinity of the
industrial area, southwest of Gaza City.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, announced that
its fighters confronted the invading Israeli forces and destroyed their
vehicles in the direction of advance west of Gaza City.

The Mujahideen Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen
Movement, said its fighters launched mortar shells toward the assembly
points of the Israeli occupation forces in northwest Gaza, with numerous
confirmed casualties resulting from the attack.

Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
movement (PIJ) launched several salvoes of rockets toward Israeli military
positions as part of the ongoing struggle in the face of the Israeli
occupation.

The confrontations come amid reports that four months into the grueling
Israeli genocide in Gaza, marked by what has been termed the most
catastrophic war in recent history, the toll has been staggering: over 100,000
individuals martyred
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/day-119--27-131-palestinians-martyred---66-287-injured>,
wounded, or missing, and more than half of the population internally
displaced.

Amid this backdrop of devastation, the Israeli government has announced
intentions to continue its military operations, actions that are
anticipated to lead to the killing of thousands more.

On Friday, the Israeli Security Minister unveiled plans to escalate
military actions in southern Gaza, specifically targeting Rafah.

*Read more: 'Israel' proceeds with buffer zone plan despite intl.
prohibition: AP
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--proceeds-with-buffer-zone-plan-despite-intl--prohib>*

This city, positioned along the Egyptian border, has become a refuge for
the majority of Palestinians fleeing the relentless Israeli onslaughts and
massacres
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/new-israeli-war-crime-uncovered--30-decomposed-bodies-in-gaz>
 throughout the Strip. Rafah, now overwhelmed with makeshift tent cities,
has become a sanctuary for families desperately seeking respite from the
occupation's violence that has besieged their lives.

“We complete the mission and will continue to Rafah,” Yoav Gallant posted
on social media on Friday, claiming that this comes after the occupation
army "dismantled" the Resistance in Khan Younis.
Displacement plans

According to "Tel Aviv," the main purpose of the operation is to "take
control" of the "Philadelphi Axis," a 14 km narrow strip of land that
separates Palestine from Egypt, extending from the Israeli-controlled Karam
Abu Salem crossing, linking the Gaza Strip and occupied territories, to the
southernmost point on the Strip's coast.

Cairo
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/el-sisi-turns-down-netanyahu-call-amid-tensions-over-philade>
 repeatedly announced its complete opposition
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/egypt-rejects-israeli-proposal-for-increased-oversight-on-bo>
 to the ground invasion plot
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/sources-to-al-mayadeen--egypt-to-not-allow-israelis-to-invad>,
with Egyptian officials warning that this serves the Israeli agenda to
expel Palestinians from Gaza toward Sinai.

However, the occupation entity seems to be planning to move ahead with the
attack nonetheless.

*Read more: Israeli invading forces burning Gaza homes to make Strip
inhabitable
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-invading-forces-burning-gaza-homes-to-make-strip-inh>*

For weeks, humanitarian organizations and activists have warned that a
military operation in the now densely-populated city would deepen the
already catastrophic conditions Palestinians are living in, especially with
the spread of famine and infectious diseases due to the Israeli blockade on
medicine, food, water and fuel.

“The loss of life we face if Israel goes down into Gaza is huge,” said Bob
Kitchen, vice president for emergencies at the International Rescue
Committee, a humanitarian relief organization operating in Gaza.
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