[News] Al-Qassam destroy Merkava tanks, share footage of complex Gaza ambush

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Al-Qassam destroy Merkava tanks, share footage of complex Gaza ambush
Al Mayadeen English
4–5 minutesJuly 13, 2024
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Palestinian Resistance fighters shelled occupation forces around and in the
Gaza Strip and released footage of a top-tier operation in Tell al-Hawa.

   - [image: Al-Qassam destroy Merkava tanks, share footage of complex Gaza
   ambush]
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   The moment a claymore placed on the outside of a building detonates into
   Israeli infantry forces on the street, in Tell al-Hawa, the Gaza Strip,
   Palestine. (al-Qassam Brigades/Military Media)

Palestinian Resistance fighters destroyed a number of Israeli military
vehicles, including a Merkava 4 tank, as the occupation's war on Gaza goes
into its 280th day.

Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades reported on several operations conducted on
Friday, including the destruction of two armored vehicles in a complex
operation that involved an unexploded F-16 launched bomb.
Al-Qassam fighters returning from the frontlines report on top-tier
operations

The brigades said that its fighters, who returned from the frontlines, had
set up an explosively formed penetrator (EFP), of the Shawaz-type, and an
unexploded Israeli F-16 launched bomb in Tell al-Hawa, in southwestern Gaza
City. Al-Qassam fighters utilized the explosives to destroy two Israeli
Merkava 4 tanks that arrived at the point of the ambush.

Two Israeli military light-armored vehicles were destroyed by al-Qassam
fighters, who had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) on a road in
Tell al-Hawa. One of the vehicles was destroyed after the IED was detonated
and the other was destroyed after an al-Qassam fighter fired an al-Yassin
tandem rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at it.

Moreover, fighters that had returned from the frontlines on Friday, after
several days of confrontations in Tell al-Hawa, said that they engaged an
Israeli infantry force in close-quarters battle, while also detonating an
anti-personnel IED into Israeli reinforcements that arrived in the
neighborhood.

Al-Mujahideen Brigades fighters, in coordination with al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, sniped an Israeli soldier in Tell al-Hawa.

Israeli forces repositioned themselves westwards in Tell al-Hawa, on Street
8, after launching a dual incursion into al-Shujaiya and Tell al-Hawa. The
incursion into al-Shujaiya was put off and Israeli forces withdrew from the
neighborhood after suffering heavy losses.
Palestinian Resistance fighters shell Israeli sites, positions

Palestinian Resistance fighters also shelled Israeli occupation forces'
positions, utilizing a variety of mortar shells and short-range rocket
artillery weapons.
Intense shelling of strategic Netzarim Axis

Al-Qassam fighters renewed their shelling of the Netzarim Axis, which
splits the northern Gaza Strip from the rest of the besieged territory. The
axis has been a strategic logistics point for the Israeli military, which
has utilized it to launch incursions into Gaza City and the central Gaza
Strip. It also hosts several field command and control points.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades also heavily shelled
occupation forces across the axis on Friday. Moreover, al-Nasser Salah
al-Din Brigades fighters fired two 107mm rockets at Israeli forces in
Netzarim.

The PIJ's armed wing also launched several 107mm rockets and barrages of
mortar shells at the Karem Abu Salem military site, located to the east of
Rafah.

In the southernmost city of Rafah, the brigades' mortar units shelled
occupation forces at occupying the Rafah border crossing.

Further north, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine's
(DFLP) National Resistance Brigades conducted a joint rocket attack with
al-Mujahideen Brigades, targeting the Nahal Oz military site, located to
the east of al-Shujaiya.

In Rafah's George Street, al-Qassam fighters fired two al-Yassin shells at
an Israeli Merkava tank and armored personnel carrier (APC).
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