Stand with Palestine!
Unrelenting Palestinian Resistance
Al Qassam targets Israeli tank in northern Gaza
Resistance in Gaza remains relentless, making clear to Israel and the world that no matter what hopes the U.S./Zionist forces harbour, as well as those who conciliate with them, their plans to wipe out the Palestinian people and their Resistance organizations will fail. Gaza belongs to the Palestinians and the Resistance is steadfast. The people will decide future arrangements, not those who do not even recognize the Palestinians as human beings, let alone that they comprise a people.
The Resistance is countering the brutal U.S./Zionist massacres and use of starvation and extreme violence against the people, as well as their incitement of agents provocateurs to gain a foothold in Palestine, to no avail.
Since the takeover of Syria by U.S. sponsored terrorists, the Resistance has regularly provided information about their actions with reports and videos, including in areas Israel claims are "secure."
The Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip has been a main area where the U.S./Zionist forces are committing heinous crimes, but due to the actions of the Resistance they have failed to establish control. On December 18, Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, said its fighters blew up an Israeli troop carrier near the Martyr Imad Aqel Mosque, east of Jabaliya. They also eliminated five Israeli soldiers near the Al-Khulafaa Mosque in the center of the camp. For its part, Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad announced the targeting of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the center of Jabaliya.
Displaced in northern Gaza
Al-Qassam reported that its fighters again targeted the occupation's command and control site in the Netzarim axis with 107 rockets. Netzarim axis separates northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip. This action follows earlier joint operations by Al-Quds, Al-Qassam, and other resistance groups targeting the command and control headquarters. Actions also targeted the Israeli occupation's logistical support and supplies for the area.
Also on December 18, Al-Qassam said that it targeted an Israeli force that had barricaded itself inside a house with a TBG shell near the Abu Sharkh roundabout, west of Jabaliya.
An Al-Qassam fighter killed an Israeli soldier next to a Merkava tank, seized his weapon, and threw two hand grenades into the tank west of Beit Lahia, also in northern Gaza Strip.
These actions follow those on December 13 and since when Al-Qassam Brigades reported that they shelled the Israeli occupation forces in the Al-Bareed area of the Jabaliya camp, using heavy caliber mortars. They also reported the targeting of two Israeli D-9 bulldozers and a Nemer personnel carrier, using a Shuath explosive device, near the Falluja cemetery, west of Jabaliya. Al-Quds Brigades shelled gatherings of Israeli occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the Jabaliya Services Club.
Joint actions also succeeded in blowing up a Zionist troop carrier loaded with explosives in the Al-Khulafa area in Jabaliya camp. Israel admitted that several of its soldiers were killed or wounded. Palestinian sources, judging by the number of helicopters that evacuated the dead and wounded, suggest that the number of Israeli casualties was significantly higher than the Israelis admitted.
A few days before, Al-Quds reported: "We bombed with regular mortar shells (60 mm caliber) the soldiers and vehicles of the Zionist enemy who penetrated the vicinity of Al-Fawz Mosque in the Saftawi area," in northern Gaza.
In Rafah, in southern Gaza, Al-Quds Brigades reported December 18: "We took control of a Zionist drone while it was carrying out intelligence missions in the skies of Rafah city." Days before, east of Rafah, Al-Qassam fighters took control of three Quadcopter drones while they were conducting intelligence missions in the Al-Jeneina neighborhood.
Additionally, Al-Quds provided a video of an artillery operation against Israeli soldiers and vehicles that were penetrating the Al-Jeneina neighborhood. The video showed the vehicles being monitored during their incursion into the operation area and targeted with mortar shells between December 12 and 15.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Martyr Brigades, military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has also reported successful actions. They were part of the joint operations against the Israeli occupiers in the Netzarim axis and also targeted the new Israeli military sites in the Philadelphi axis in the southern Gaza Strip near Rafah with a rocket barrage. Their rocket unit targeted Israeli military gatherings in central Gaza with a 107-caliber rocket barrage.
Resistance in the West Bank
Protest in Jenin in support of the Resistance, December 14, 2024
Actions against the Israeli occupiers in the West Bank also persist. Resistance fighters in the West Bank confronted Israeli occupation forces during a series of incursions in several cities, using gunfire and explosive devices to repel the Israeli troops. The clashes come amid an intensification of Israeli military activities in the occupied territories, marked by heightened repression, mass detentions, and killing of Palestinians.
The Al-Quds Jenin Brigade reported blowing up an occupation military vehicle with an explosive device on the Janzour axis in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the West Bank.
Reports inform that the U.S./Zionist forces are also once again instigating agents of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to act against the Resistance in Jenin. In the name of "maintaining law and order" they raided Jenin on December 14. Resistance fighters there have continued to fight against the Israeli occupiers and refuse to permit the enemy to incite internecine warfare and refuse to abandon the Resistance or their arms. They stand firm in the necessity to continue opposing the U.S./Zionist genocide.
In the city of Tubas, fighters from Al-Qassam Brigades reported engaging Israeli forces in fierce confrontations near the city's main street. The Resistance employed automatic weapons during the battle, forcing the Israeli troops to retreat.
Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for Al-Qassam Brigades, called on Palestinians in the West Bank to intensify their attacks on the Israeli army. In a statement issued on December 12, Abu Obeida hailed the operation carried out by a Palestinian at the Al-Khader checkpoint south of Jerusalem that killed Israeli forces. He said "we call on our youth and resistance fighters in the West Bank to intensify their operations against the enemy's soldiers and its gangs of usurpers in order to thwart the occupation's plans, which are accelerating in pace to annex the West Bank and impose new facts on the ground."
(The Palestine Chronicle, Telegram, Al Mayadeen)
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 49 - December 20, 2024
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