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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Gaza Resistance inflicts major losses on invading Israeli forces</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">February 4, 2024<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><p>The Palestinian Resistance attacks Israeli assembly points and advancing forces amid the encirclement of Gaza City.</p><img src="cid:ii_ls81982o0" alt="46141a0e-839b-4261-8e86-027eb20fdce0.jpg" width="416" height="221"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
Bombing of Israeli occupation positions by the al-Quds Brigades (the military media wing of the Islamic Jihad movement)
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<p>The Palestinian Resistance on the 120th day of Operation al-Aqsa
Flood confronted the invading Israeli occupation forces from numerous
directions in Gaza City.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Al-Qassam's fighters sniped an Israeli soldier in the vicinity of the industrial area, southwest of Gaza City.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The confrontations come amid reports that four months into the grueling Israeli genocide in Gaza, <span>marked by what has been termed the most catastrophic war in recent history, the toll has been staggering: over </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/day-119--27-131-palestinians-martyred---66-287-injured">100,000 individuals martyred</a><span>, wounded, or missing, and more than half of the population internally displaced.</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>On Friday, the Israeli Security Minister unveiled plans to escalate
military actions in southern Gaza, specifically targeting Rafah.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--proceeds-with-buffer-zone-plan-despite-intl--prohib">'Israel' proceeds with buffer zone plan despite intl. prohibition: AP</a></strong></p>
<p>This city, positioned along the Egyptian border, has become a refuge
for the majority of Palestinians fleeing the relentless Israeli<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/new-israeli-war-crime-uncovered--30-decomposed-bodies-in-gaz">onslaughts and massacres</a><span> </span>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<h2>Displacement plans</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/el-sisi-turns-down-netanyahu-call-amid-tensions-over-philade">Cairo</a><span> </span>repeatedly announced its<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/egypt-rejects-israeli-proposal-for-increased-oversight-on-bo">complete opposition</a><span> </span>to the<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/sources-to-al-mayadeen--egypt-to-not-allow-israelis-to-invad">ground invasion plot</a>, with Egyptian officials warning that this serves the Israeli agenda to expel Palestinians from Gaza toward Sinai.</p>
<p>However, the occupation entity seems to be planning to move ahead with the attack nonetheless.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-invading-forces-burning-gaza-homes-to-make-strip-inh">Israeli invading forces burning Gaza homes to make Strip inhabitable</a></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p></div></div></div>
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