Click to see full-size image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Fighting has intensified in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attempt to expand its control while facing fierce resistance from the Hamas Movement and other Palestinian armed factions.
On January 4, the IDF said in a statement that reservists of the Kiryati Brigade directed an Israeli Air Force aircraft to strike three Hamas fighters attempting to plant a bomb near the forces in the city of Khan Yunis. The troops killed two other fighters who were hiding in a nearby building, according to the IDF. A fighter jet also hit a Hamas weapons depot in the city, the IDF added.
Also in southern Gaza, the IDF said that Hamas fighters fired anti-tank missiles at the 7th Armored Brigade, and a short while later, an aircraft struck the cell behind the attack and the launch position.
In central Gaza’s Deir al Balah city, the IDF said that the 98th Division directed an airstrike on a building used by Hamas as an anti-tank missile launch position. A fighter jet hit the launch site, as well as two more buildings in the area where some of the fighters fled. The IDF added that another Hamas fighter who arrived later to search the area for weapons was hit in a separate airstrike.
In al-Bureij, also located in central Gaza, the IDF said troops of the Golani Brigade located several long-range rocket launchers.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Navy has continued to carry out strikes along Gaza’s coast, aiding the ground forces. The strikes over the past day killed a number of Hamas fighters attempting to ambush ground forces, according to the IDF.
In a separate statement, the IDF said that reservists of the Kiryati Armored Brigade and 55th Paratroopers Brigade operating in southern Gaza have killed many fighters of Hamas’ northern and eastern Khan Younis battalions, and significantly damaged their command and control, preventing fighters from carrying out large-scale attacks.
The IDF releases video footage of the two reserve brigades operating in the Khan Younis area, killing Hamas fighters in tunnels and detaining alleged operatives of the group’s elite Nukhba force.
The IDF also announced that it had assassinated a senior commander of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
In a joint statement with the Shin Bet, the IDF says Mamdouh Lulu served as an assistant to the commanders of the al-Quds Brigades’ northern Gaza division. He also maintained contact with Islamic Jihad officials abroad.
From its side, Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said that its fighters hit five Merkavak main battle tanks of the IDF with rocket-propelled grenades and targeted several gatherings of Israeli troops with explosive devices and mortars in central and southern Gaza.
The al-Quds Brigades also announced rocket attacks against Ashkelon and other nearby Israeli settlements and said that its fighters hit two IDF vehicles in central Gaza with rocket-propelled grenades.
The IDF appears to be in a hurry to capture Khan Yunis and expand its control in central Gaza. However, Hamas and other factions are putting up fierce resistance.
what is that russian post gonna do?
something that you’re too stupid to understand.
moaning about confirmed scores of tunnel rat kills in gaza while the political wing lives a life of luxury with billions worth of laundered money at doha hotel plaza in qatar.
are you really that stupid? it was told in the previous story where the construction of the posts was told.
and yet the matter is clear as day, their purpose is to calm the borders of russia-protected syria from israeli attacks. if israel hits the russians, russia has no reason why it wouldn’t fire 160 hypersonic missiles at israel, the domes don’t protect against them.
they are observing isreali apartheid regime atrocities and war crimes, until they have seen enough. president putin isn’t fooled by isreali smiles and promises. we all know what the isreali bolsheviks do with promises.
they don’t know how to fight without their air support 24/7 like the us-pedo.
remember yaquis and zionists that went to ukraine run away after the 2nd week of the war, what they bitch about? ukraine doesn’t know how to fight lol.
they are working smart from above. not working hard.
put down the drugs, working smart? they are still stuck in n-gaza and hamas still fire missiles into israel and zionists had to stop using their piss dome and save missiles for hezbollah/future (sure they are working smart, your iq is -5).
what are you on about… the us bombed afghanistan 24/7 and kill any civilians that they thought were taliban, guess which one own in the end?
gaza is not that big nor hamas have massive amount of weapons/missile/anything…
hamas is just bleeding israel dry. israel has 3-4 months of iron dome missiles and then they are fckd… and it seems the whole world is waiting for the final destruction of jew town.
tel aviv is the gay capital of the world.
almost 30% of the male idf s*ck c0ck.
israel will soon been destroyed from the heavens above and their iron arsehoel will be deep fkd
the piles of dead shlomos being schlepped back to the squatter enclave is becoming even too much for niatay aka nut’nyahoo to fob off on his livestock. the psychopath is about to be removed. my guess is we are about to experience another one of those typical khazar hits where the psychopathic demon gets the “rabin treatment”. the gubermint of the chosen is about to come crashing down and the real war with hezbollah hasn’t even kicked off. the freedom fighters of palestine cannot be stopped.
it’s customary for isreali leaders to be removed via assassination. that’s how the zionists came to power in isreal.
that video footage does not in fact, show the idf shooting at any hamas fighter, just idf wasting ammo, and running in an empty building. if they had killed anyone in this pretend operation, they would have proudly shown corpses and weapons, hier zilch, nada 🤡