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The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, has released video footage showing its fighters using a Chinese-made HJ-8L anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip for the first time ever.
The ATGM attack took place in the area of Tell Zaroub near the southern Gaza city of Rafah on June 23. At the time, the al-Qassam Brigades claimed that the missile was fired from an Ofek command and control armored vehicle. However, footage released the next day revealed that the target was the combat engineering version of the Namer armored personnel carrier.
The HJ-8L is a lighter version of the original HJ-8 that can be carried by just two fighters. The system can fire two types of missiles, one with a range of three kilometers and another with a range of four kilometers. Both missiles are thought to be armed with tandem high-explosive anti-tank warheads.
The missile scored a direct hit against the IDF’s Namer. The Windbreaker active protection system installed on the vehicle didn’t work. It is unclear however if the ATGM attack resulted in any casualties.
HJ-8L was not spotted with al-Qassam Brigades or any other Palestinian armed factions in Gaza before. This suggests that the system was supplied recently.
It remains unclear how the system found its way into Gaza. One possibility is that it came from Sudan, which produces a licensed copy of the HJ-8L dubbed “Sarib”. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was accused of smuggling weapons to Gaza from Sudan via Egypt in the past.
Overall, the surprise appearance of the HJ-8L in Gaza represents a blow to the IDF, which has clearly failed to stop the flow of weapons into Gaza even after occupying the Strip’s border with neighboring Egypt.
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open the floodgates and arm all enemies of the sick anglo zionazi beast to the teeth!
i agree israel needs more diversity tear down the apartheidswall. and let all palestinians back in these jewish supremists deserve to get their own agendas projected back on them. diversity is good diversity is a strengh. that is why the middle east is so peaceful. these jews are just racists.
look at those idf running away like insects. inshallah, egyptians will be escalating the weapons transfers to gazan brothers. bleed those israelis to death. they deserve nothing less
i wish once the missile was launched, they should have opened fire on those scumbag soldiers to the right, making them run to the left. with a bit of luck, they would have been near the namur when it ate the missile >> bingo!
flitting jews!
history repeats itself after all 😆😆😆
dumb saxon amerikunt peasant nazi inferior to jew
what would be better and actually work to free palestine is when all muslims by the millions flood israels borders and make it palestinian again.
instead of moving to europe and the united states all move to israel and reclaim the land that is rightfully yours. end the apartheids state and their jewish supremist ideology. make palestine palestinian again.
how can it be that more then a billion muslims in the world ar not able to deal with a 15 million jews or so and just 7.2 million of them occupying palestine. you people need to get more organized and deal with the jewish vermin culprit who occupies your land. same as we here need to remove them from our governments and institutions.
which is why the ukrainian situation arose, they need a new squat to move to.
what is the reload time of that system? would be great to see more hits!
surprise surprise and i bet the jews are already crying their souls out in the lap of uncle sam! and now give the houthis some serious stuff to aim at the us navy ships in the red sea!
jews have been suckers for 1000s of years
if they were suckers, they wouldn’t be running everything.
we’re the suckers for letting them.
ok, ok, you’re sucker, too.
if israel can not expand, then the vampire has to pull its black army back to where they came from. or it will be attacked by them.
well.
they used a hj 8c.
it is effective against active explosive armor.
bravooooo 👏👏👏👏👏
just love watching kans of khazar terrorist scum get charred. onward to the libertation of all palestine!!!!
if the chinese made a decision, it’s going to be 1,000,000,000 fold strong.
i urge israel to draft all orthodox jews and their women to the front so they can fight hezbollah.
i also urge them to adopt human wave tactics.
eliminate the global jew infestation
good. hope to much much more chinese and russian weapons destroying israeli and nato forces all over the world. rightfully so. if the us can arm taiwan and ukraine to the teeth china and russia should have enough sense to arm natos enemies.
russia. china. iran and north korea should provide palestinians with all the weapons they need to free their land from the zionist occupation forces.
in denmark our rubber duck navy pay cow fart tax cuz i poop in potato farm for 46 years
in amerika we invent special lgbt depleted uranium dildo
the certified stupidity of the yanks manifest itself over and over and they blame china for the fentanyl crises in the 50 states while ignoring the jews trade in heroin (together with cia and mi6) from asia to europe and the americas and also the grand smuggling operation of cocaine into europe and the the us. turn a blind eye on the problem, like nelson!