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“Axis of Death” – Resistance Summary – Day 317

“Axis of Death” – Resistance Summary – Day 317
Scenes from a complex operation on the Netzarim axis in Gaza. (Photo: video recording)

From the editors of the Palestine Chronicle

This attack is particularly important because it demonstrated the resistance's ability to maneuver and launch direct attacks on Israeli forces.

Video footage released on Saturday showed an attack by fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, on Israeli occupation forces on the Netzarim axis in the Tel Al-Hawa district south of Gaza City.

This attack is particularly important because it demonstrated the resistance's ability to maneuver in a fortified and 24-hour surveillance area and to launch direct attacks on Israeli forces.

Israel wants to maintain a permanent presence in Netzarim, but Palestinian resistance in the region continues to make the Israeli mission virtually impossible.

Al-Qassam said four of its fighters managed to enter the area separating the northern Gaza Strip from its center and south, where they ambushed an Israeli force consisting of two military jeeps and detonated two bombs, killing or wounding several soldiers.

At the beginning of the video, Kassam fighters are seen entering the area of ​​the attack. One of the fighters says he is part of “the recruitment of 2024, which will be terrifying for Israel,” before dedicating the operation to Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated by Israel in the Iranian capital Tehran late last month.

The footage then showed careful monitoring of the movements of the occupying troops as well as the preparation and placement of explosive devices.

Before the bombing, Al-Qassam fighters barricaded themselves in a location near the placement of IEDs and the passage of Israeli military vehicles.

After the withdrawal, a Kassam member vowed, “We will repeat the attacks,” and sent a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the “next (attack) will be bigger.”

Al-Qassam ended the video with a scene in which one of the killed Israeli soldiers was presumably taken out of the area.

This is the second operation of this kind by the Qassam Brigades, after its fighters raided the headquarters of the Israeli occupation forces near the Tel Zurub area, southeast of the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. The video of the operation was released on July 10.

Below is the text provided by Al-Qassam that accompanied the video shared on the movement's Telegram channel.

Martyrs Izz El Din Al Qassam Brigades:

Watch: From the attack on the enemy forces on the “Netzarim” axis south of the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City.

“0:16 – On the Netzarim axis. There were Israelis in front of us, behind us, to the left, to the right and above us! We still blew up two jeeps and came back safe and sound.

0:29 – The Axis of Death.

0:37 – Netzarim Axis

“A group of four fighters managed to penetrate the Netzarim axis, where dozens of soldiers were stationed, and ambushed an enemy force consisting of two jeeps, detonated two anti-personnel explosive devices against them, clashed with them and left them dead and wounded. Our fighters withdrew peacefully.

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0:47 – [Left to right] The University College, the enemy supply line, the site of the attack.

0:59 – “O Lord, 'And We have placed before them a barrier and behind them a barrier and covered them so that they do not see.' O Lord, we ask for Your bounty. In the name of Allah, in the name of Allah, in the name of Allah.”

1:10 – The fighters enter the attack site.

1:22 – “Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, recruitment 2024, by the grace of Allah Almighty, recruitment 2024 will be a horror for the unit, something you have never seen before. Today we dedicate the operation to the soul of the martyr Abu Al-Abd Haniyeh and the souls of all martyrs.”

1:51 – Monitoring enemy movements.

2:00 – Preparation and placement of explosives.

2:26 – “The Ra'adiya (thunder) bomb is here and the television bomb is there.”

2:32 – [On the ground, left to right]: Television explosive, Ra'adiya (thunder) explosion.

[In building]: The fortress of the fighters.

2:38 – The advance of the attacked jeeps.

3:03 – The explosive wave in the Jeep.

3:35 – The impact of the shrapnel on the glass and the stopping of the jeeps.

04:03 – “We returned [safely] in the grace of Allah. In the name of Allah, in the name of Allah, we will do it again. This is a message to Netanyahu: What is coming is even worse.”

4:15 – Evacuation of one of the dead [soldiers] from the surgical site.

Below you will find the latest statements from the two main resistance forces in the Gaza Strip and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.

The statements were communicated via their Telegram channels and are published here in their original form.

Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas)

“Al-Qassam Brigades attack a Zionist infantry force of ten soldiers with an anti-personnel grenade near the University College in Tel Al-Hawa, south of Gaza City.

“Al-Qassam militia fighters were able to detonate a barrel explosive device and another Sadmiyya (shock) explosive device on the enemy forces dismounted from vehicles west of Al-Hawouz area west of Hamad City, north of Khan Younis, killing or wounding them.”

Al-Quds Brigades (Islamic Jihad)

“We bombed the command and control headquarters of the Zionist enemy army advancing near Hill 86 Al-Kurd northeast of Khan Younis with 107mm rockets.

“We bombarded the military base on Mars with a salvo of missiles.

“We bombarded a concentration of Zionist enemy vehicles and soldiers that had entered north of Hamad City, west of Khan Younis, with a salvo of standard mortar shells (caliber 60 mm).”

Hezbollah

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted and directly hit the Marj site with rocket weapons on Sunday, August 18, 2024.

“Islamic Resistance fighters bombarded the Sahel Battalion command headquarters in the Beit Hillel barracks with a salvo of Katyusha rockets on Sunday, August 18, 2024.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted the Zar'it Barracks with artillery shells on Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 3:10 p.m. and hit them directly.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance attacked and destroyed the surveillance equipment at the Ruwaisat al-Alam site in the occupied hills of Kfar Shuba with appropriate weapons on Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 3:30 p.m.

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“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted the Malikiyah site with artillery shells on Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 3:45 p.m. and hit it directly.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance bombarded the Jal Al-Alam site and the soldiers stationed around it with artillery shells on Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 3:45 p.m., scoring direct hits.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted the Zebdine site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with rocket weapons on Sunday, 18.08.2024 at 18:15 and hit it directly.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted the Ruwaisat Al-Qarn site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with rocket weapons on Sunday, 18.08.2024, at 18:15 and hit it directly.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance attacked the espionage equipment at the Misgav Am site with appropriate weapons on Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 6:50 p.m., directly hitting and destroying it.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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