[News] Al-Quds Brigades intensify operations against Israeli forces in Gaza

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Al-Quds Brigades intensify operations against Israeli forces in Gaza
Al Mayadeen English
May 11, 2025
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Al-Quds Brigades ambushed Israeli forces in eastern Gaza, wounding soldiers
and seizing a drone in a new escalation of resistance operations.

   - [image: Israeli soldiers stand in a group hug mourn another who was
   killed in a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, during his funeral service
   in the Gezer regional council in occupied Palestine, April 27, 2025 (AP)]
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   Israeli soldiers stand in a group hug as they mourn another who was killed
   in a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, during his funeral service in the
   Gezer regional council in occupied Palestine, April 27, 2025 (AP)

Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Movement, carried out a sophisticated military operation early Saturday
targeting a group of Israeli officers and soldiers in the eastern part of
Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood, a field commander in the al-Quds
Brigades said Sunday.

The commander revealed that the operation began with a calculated
ambush, luring
the Israeli forces into a trap
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nine-israeli-soldiers-injured-in-gaza-resistance-operation>
by striking an armored vehicle with a projectile, resulting in confirmed
injuries among its crew, which included both officers and soldiers.

This development follows the recent announcement by al-Quds Brigades that
its fighters had downed and seized control of an Israeli reconnaissance
drone as it was carrying out an intelligence-gathering mission in eastern
Gaza.

The operation is part of the ongoing campaign by Palestinian Resistance
factions in Gaza to repel the Israeli occupation’s ground incursions, which
have been met with increasing intensity and effectiveness. Resistance
fighters have been inflicting notable losses on "Israeli" forces in both
personnel and military equipment amid fierce urban combat.
Nine Israeli soldiers wounded

Israeli media reported on Saturday that nine Israeli occupation reserve
soldiers
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-gideon-s-chariots--operation-in-gaza-is-doomed-to-fail--isr>
 sustained minor injuries overnight due to an explosive device detonation
in the Shuja’iya area in northern Gaza, during a military sweep operation.

Among the injured, according to the reports, were two senior officers, the
deputy commander of Division 252 and the commander of Battalion 6310.

The explosion comes just a day after the Israeli occupation military
announced the killing of two soldiers and the wounding of four others in
combat in the southern Gaza Strip. One of the wounded soldiers was reported
to be in critical condition.

The military named one of the slain as Isai Alekem Orbach, who died in the
first incident, while the critically wounded soldier belonged to the 605th
Engineering Battalion under the so-called Barak Division.

The escalation follows a Thursday statement by the al-Qassam Brigades
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-ambushes-2-iof-units-in-gaza--inflict-heavy-casual>,
the armed wing of Hamas, which claimed responsibility for targeting a
12-member Israeli engineering unit preparing to detonate a home near the
Fida’i junction in the al-Tannour neighborhood east of Rafah, southern Gaza.
Operation 'doomed to fail'

Chariots" operation in Gaza
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-military-warns-expanded-gaza-operations-risk-captive>,
calling it a doomed and misguided military campaign lacking both domestic
and international legitimacy
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-captive-families-slam-gaza-plan--as-smotrich-vows--o>
.

The operation, according to the paper, is built on political illusions and
military objectives that are neither clear nor achievable.

Military correspondent Yaniv Kubovich reported that newly issued operational
directives to Israeli army commanders
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--intensifies-attacks-on-gaza-as-death-toll-passes-52?utm_source=mango-searchx&utm_medium=title_and_relatives&utm_campaign=%23Israel>
 ranked captive recovery at the bottom of mission priorities, which
reinforces longstanding concerns that the war’s publicly stated objective, the
return of captives
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-military-pressure-kills-hostages---former-captives-to-netan>,
was never taken seriously by either the government or military leadership.

Kubovich noted that the internal list of objectives undermines recent
statements by Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and military spokesperson Avi
Dovrin, who publicly emphasized that freeing captives was the army’s
primary mission.
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