Dec. 21: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation

By Press TV Website Staff

Amid Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has already claimed the lives of more than 20,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, resistance groups in Palestine and across the region continue their operations against the Tel Aviv regime and its Western backers.

The operations carried out by the Palestinian and regional resistance groups on December 21, Thursday, are as follows:

Qassam Brigades' operations on Dec. 21

• Targeted Kibbutz "Holit" with a 114 mm short-range "Rajum" rocket launcher.
• Targeted military concentrations of forces penetrating east of Khan Yunis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
• Targeted a tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in Al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip.
• Targeted a force holed up inside a building in Al-Mughraqa with an anti-fortified TBG shell.
• Bombarded Tel Aviv with a massive rocket barrage.
• Targeted a group of soldiers near a tank in Al-Mughraqa with an anti-personnel shell, and then clashed with them with machine guns, causing deaths and injuries.
• Sniped a soldier on top of a tank in Al-Mughraqa and then targeted it with a “Tandem” shell.
• Sniped 2 soldiers in the vicinity of Palestine Mosque in Gaza City, causing them confirmed injuries to the head as they fell off their vehicles.
• Targeted a special force in Al-Tawam, north of Gaza City, with ‘Shuath’ explosive devices and clashed with it with heavy machine guns. The fighters confirmed that 11 of its soldiers were killed, and then detonated an anti-personnel device in its supporting force, which consisted of 8 soldiers.
• Killed 6 soldiers who were holed up in a house in the area of Yarmouk in Gaza City with the appropriate weapons.
• Targeted 7 vehicles across various axes and confirmed that they had sustained significant damage, some completely destroyed and burned.
• Targeted a group of soldiers with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell north of Khan Yunis, causing deaths and injuries.
• Targeted 3 tanks with “Al-Yassin 105” shells east of Khan Yunis
• Targeted a gathering of soldiers in the vicinity of the Civil Administration in the northern Gaza Strip with a barrage of mortar shells.
• Targeted the "Nahal Oz" site and military concentrations in the vicinity of the Badr site north of the beach and the axes of advance with missile and mortar shells.
• Killed and wounded a group of soldiers who had barricaded themselves inside a house in Sheikh Radwan during fierce clashes engaged with machine guns and anti-personnel shells.
• Targeted 3 military vehicles with “Tandem” shells in Tal al-Zaatar and Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Shot down a “Sky Racing” drone - No. 528.
• Targeted the "Megin" and “Kissufim” military sites with a concentrated rocket salvo.
• Targeted military concentrations surrounding Al-Zalal Mosque, east of Khan Yunis, with a barrage of mortar shells.
• Engaged in fierce clashes with soldiers and vehicles in the Yarmouk area and Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City, which included targeting military vehicles with RPG shells.

Hezbollah's operations on Dec 21:

Eastern sector:

• At 00:15, the settlement of Kiryat Shmona was bombed with Katyusha rockets.
• At 12:15, Israeli soldiers in Shebaa were targeted with rockets.
• At 12:45, three attack drones targeted military site in Shebaa.
• At 15:30, the Ramim site was targeted with appropriate weapons and direct hits were achieved.
• At 17:00, the settlements of Metulla and Ramot Naftali were targeted with rockets.

Western sector:

• At 00:30, rockets were fired at the Beranit Forests.
• At 11:15, targeting the colonies of Doviv and Avivim with appropriate weapons and causing confirmed casualties.
• At 13:30, Al-Jardah site was targeted with appropriate weapons.

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