Jan. 1: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation

By Press TV Website Staff

Resistance groups in Palestine and across the region continue their operations against Israel and its Western backers amid the regime's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has claimed the lives of more than 22,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women.

The operations carried out by the Palestinian and regional resistance groups on Monday, January 1, are as follows:

Al-Qassam Brigades’ operations on Jan 1:

• Seized control of an Israeli military drone that was on a spying mission in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Ambushed a group of Israeli regime soldiers in one of the houses where their vehicles were parked in the Al-Bureij camp. The resistance fighters surprised them with volleys of bullets and shells, causing deaths and injuries, then withdrew to their bases safely.
• Targeted a Merkava tank with an ‘Al-Yassin’ 105 shell north of Al-Bureij refugee camp.
• Targeted five vehicles in the east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.
• Blew up a tunnel with a number of soldiers inside in Jabal Al-Rayes, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, causing several casualties.
• Attacked a number of Israeli military vehicles east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood with Tandem shells and anti-personnel explosives, which led to a number of casualties.
• Shot at a regime soldier east of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, confirming his death.
• Targeted three Israeli regime soldiers north of Khan Yunis with an anti-personnel shell, causing several deaths and injuries in the Al-Qarara area.
• Detonated a minefield after entering the “Hebron” military site east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, leading to the death of 15 regime soldiers.
• Targeted concentrations east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City with a rocket barrage.
• Targeted an Israeli special force unit holed up inside a building in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City with an anti-fortified TBG shell and engaged in clashes, leaving many of them dead.

 Al-Quds Brigades’ operations on Jan. 1:

• Bombed a gathering of regime soldiers and vehicles with Badr-1 rockets east of Al-Bureij camp.
• Targeted an Israeli military carrier with a ‘Tandem’ shell in the Al-Bureij camp.
• Targeted two Israeli military vehicles with RPG shells in the Al-Tuffah axis, east of Gaza City.
• Targeted an Israeli tank and a D9 military bulldozer with Tandem and RPG shells in Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj neighborhoods, east of Gaza City.
• Targeted a regime bulldozer with an RBG shell east of the Al-Bureij camp.

Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades’ operations on Jan. 1:

• Targeted a gathering of Zionist soldiers and vehicles in Khan Yunis, south Gaza, with heavy caliber mortars.

Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades’ operations on Jan 1:

• Targeted a helicopter belonging to the Israeli military with a SAM-7 anti-aircraft missile, east of Gaza, causing a direct hit.

 Mujahideen Brigades’ operations on Jan. 1:

• Struck military vehicles and targeted Israeli soldiers with mortars, southeast of Al-Zaytoun.
• Struck military vehicles and targeted regime soldiers with mortars, southwest of Tel Al-Hawa.
• Struck the gathering of Zionist soldiers & military vehicles, east of Khan Yunis in the vicinity of the Khuza'a entrance, with medium-caliber mortars.
• Targeted an Israeli helicopter with a SAM-7 anti-aircraft missile, in the Al-Shujaiya area, hitting it.

 Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades’ operations on Jan. 1:

• Pounded Israeli military gatherings in the southern Gaza axis with 120mm mortars.
• Targeted Israeli military gatherings in the eastern Khan Younis axis with a number of 120mm mortars.
• Targeted Israeli military gatherings in the eastern Al-Bureij city axis with a number of 120mm mortars.
• Engaged in clashes with regime forces east of Khan Younis with heavy barrages of bullets and RPGs.
• Shelled Israeli military gatherings east of Khan Younis with a number of 120mm mortars
• Shelled the Israeli military gathering in Khan Younis with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortars.

 Martyr Omar Al-Qassem forces’ operations on Jan. 1:

• Engaged in clashes with regime forces in the central Khan Younis axis and launched an RPG at one of the military vehicles, hitting it and causing deaths and injuries.
• Destroyed two Merkava tanks and inflicted deaths and injuries among its soldiers.
• Shot at an Israeli soldier in the vicinity of Sheikh Radwan, confirming his injury.

Hezbollah's operations on Jan. 1:

Western sector:

• At around 15:00 local time, the Hadab Al-Bustan site was targeted with appropriate weapons.
• At around 17:55 local time, a position of Israeli enemy soldiers was targeted in the vicinity of the Yaara Barracks with appropriate weapons.

Iraqi resistance’s operations on Jan 1:

• Attacked the occupation base in the Conoco field deep in Syria with a rocket salvo, hitting its targets and resulting in the destruction of enemy strongholds.
• Targeted the occupied Al-Shaddadi base in Syria, using drones, causing the destruction of enemy strongholds.
• Pounded an Israeli military target in Eilat with appropriate weapons, causing heavy damage.

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