[News] IOF ambushed by resistance, suffers heavy losses in al-Zaytoun, Rafah

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IOF ambushed by resistance, suffers heavy losses in al-Zaytoun, Rafah
Al Mayadeen English
june 20, 2024Scenes of targeting occupation vehicles in the Al-Taqaddum
axis in the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah
(Al-Qassam - Military Media)

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The Palestinian Resistance continues to confront Israeli occupation forces
invading Gaza
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/day-258-in-gaza---israel--kills-37-431--injures-85-653>,
inflicting heavy losses on its soldiers and equipment.

The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing confirmed
that it had bombed the Third Eye military sites, with a rocket barrage.

Al-Qassam fighters
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-forced-to-withdraw-from-al-far-a-camp-after-explosives-d>
also ambushed the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) using a mine with a heavy
explosive charge planted under a passageway following days of monitoring
the IOF on al-Bahr street, south of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of
Rafah.

Al-Qassam detailed
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-captures-israeli-troops--gear-in-complex-jabalia-o>
how the IOF Merkava tank
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-targets-a--merkava--tank-with-a-special-guided-mis>
was positioned above the mine when it was detonated, leading to the
destruction and death of its crew.

The operations to evacuate the remains of the dead soldiers and the tank’s
wreckage continued for several hours.

The Al-Qassam Brigades targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks with al-Yassin
105 shells in the al-Shaboura camp in the city of Rafah.

IOF crew fled after being targeted in the camp while the brigades pursued
them. Several IOF were killed at point-blank range in the operation.

The brigades also targeted two IOF Eitan fighting vehicles with al-Yassin
105 missiles, publishing footage of IOF vehicles being targeted and its
forces being killed with mortar shells in the Taqaddum axis in Tal
al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.

The al-Qassam Brigades showed footage of the seizure of a Mavic quadcopter
in the al-Shaboura camp in westernmost Rafah.

The IOF command and control site east of al-Zaytoun was bombarded by
al-Qassam with heavy-caliber mortar shells, causing direct losses among its
ranks as fighters monitored the landing of a Black Hawk and Yasour
helicopter to evacuate dead and wounded.

al-Qassam published footage of the al-Zouari suicide drone
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-drones-constitute--new-generation-of-unconventiona>
being launched towards an IOF gathering in the Holit settlement near Gaza.

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad
movement, showed scenes of bombing settlements
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/new-poll-shows-a-third-28--of-settlers-in-north-not-to-retur>
around the Gaza Strip with a rocket barrage.

The al-Quds Brigades engaged in fierce clashes with small arms, grenades,
and anti-armor shells with the occupation soldiers and vehicles penetrating
the center of the city of Rafah.

It announced targeting an Israeli Merkava tank with an RPG shell and
destroying another tank with explosives in the al-Shaboura neighborhood in
Rafah.

The al-Quds Brigades confirmed that they, in conjunction with the Al-Qassam
Brigades, bombed a gathering of occupation vehicles and soldiers in the
Shaboura camp in the center of the city of Rafah with a barrage of mortar
shells.
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