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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continue to face fierce resistance from the Hamas Movement and other Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip.
On April 18, Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, released two videos showing one of its snipers taking out an Israeli soldier to the east of the city of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza and an attack with heavy mortars on an IDF gathering near the settlement of Netzarim to the south of the Strip.
The group released another video on April 20 showing its fighters targeting an armored bulldozer of the IDF to the east of the area of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad -the second largest faction in Gaza after Hamas-, shared two more videos on April 18 and 20, showing rocket attacks on settlements and IDF gatherings close to the Strip.
There have been reports of several Israeli troops being wounded in Gaza in recent days. However, the IDF didn’t announce the death of any soldier or officer recently.
In recent months, the IDF withdrew from most of the areas it invaded in the northern and southern parts of Gaza. However, it continues to maintain a large presence in the central part, where its troops split the Strip in half.
The IDF has lost 260 soldiers and officers since the start of ground operations in Gaza. More than 1,560 others have been reportedly wounded.
On the Palestinian side, the death toll from the Israeli war has reached 34,049, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the Strip, which also said that at least 76,901 others have been wounded. Women and children make up the majority of the casualties.
In addition to the high number of casualties, the war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the Strip’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Israel is yet to achieve any of the objects it launched the war for. However, it appears to be determined to go on with the war on Gaza. The next target for the IDF will likely be the city of Rafah in the southern part of the Strip, where more than 1,5 million Palestinians are said to be taking shelter.
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this kind of attack is always strange, they film the area very clearly then when the moment comes for the mortar attack, no more image of the other side, they are excellent fighters against the israeli parasite but that bothers me this kind of video
that’s always my question when watching these videos: “congratulations, you sure can fire it… but did you hit anything?”
agreed, i wanna see zionist cockroaches exploding too…
self defense against genocide is a human right.
courageous people. reminds me of the haganah and stern gangs.
the greatest crime on planet earth is being committed in palestine and the world is watching with indifference. the palestinian fighters are the heroes of the 21st century. may god give them strength against the genocidal zionists.
you persist in reporting israeli claims of military deaths as fact, while you rubbish similar ukrainian claims. while political recognition of a government is based on the objective test of whether it has real and effective control of the territory it claims, the zionist state has been conducting massacres like crocus city hall since before 1948 to now, a fact that never worried any government sufficiently to be reported unfavourably by its mainstream media.
it’s not enough. in order to move the illegally occupying forces out of palestine, there is a need for a concerted effort by each country surrounding the criminals in tel aviv and no stop untill they, the criminals, like 34000 gaza inhabitants, are in that precise state or swimming for dear life in the med!,
the gaza shooting gallery is still open for business!
heheheh