Feb. 5: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation

By Press TV Website Staff

Amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which has already claimed the lives of almost 28,000 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 Monday, February 5, are as follows:

Al-Qassam Brigades’ operations on Feb. 5:

• Seized a Skylark reconnaissance drone belonging to the Israeli military during its secretive spying mission, west of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip.
• In a joint operation with Al-Quds Brigades, shelled a concentration of Israeli military forces infiltrating west of Gaza City using mortar shells and 107mm rockets.
• Ambushed an Israeli military convoy and detonated three pre-planted explosive devices on a Merkava tank and targeted another tank with a Yassin-105 shell west of Khan Younis city.
• Targeted four Merkava tanks with Yassin 105 shells, west of Khan Younis city and southwest of Gaza City.
• Targeted a group of Israeli soldiers entrenched in a house with a TBG anti-fortification, west of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, causing casualties.

Al-Quds Brigades’ operations on Feb. 5:

• Targeted Israeli soldiers with anti-personnel "Buraq" bombs in the axes of Khan Younis.
• Shelled Israeli troops and vehicles with mortars in the axis southwest of Khan Younis.
• Shelled a concentration of Israeli troops and vehicles east of the al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
• Launched Grad rockets at IOF forces and military vehicles in the axis of the neighborhood west of Khan Yunis, accurately hitting their targets.
• Shelled Israeli troops and vehicles in the Tel al-Hawa axis, southwest of Gaza City, using 107mm rockets and mortar shells.
• Shelled a concentration of Israeli soldiers with a barrage of mortar shells east of al-Masdar village, central Gaza Strip.
• Fired rockets and mortar shells at Israeli troops around the Industry areas in Gaza City.

Al-Aqsa Brigades’ operations on Feb. 5:

• Shot dead an Israeli soldier in the center of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza.

• Targeted a Merkava tank, west of Gaza City, with an explosive device and RPGs, igniting it instantly and resulting in injuries and deaths.
• Shelled an Israeli military concentration and vehicles with mortar shells and Al Aqsa rockets around the Industry area, west of Gaza City.
• Engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the axis west of Khan Younis.
• Engaged in clashes with Israeli soldiers and their vehicles in the axis west of Gaza City.

Mujahideen Brigades’ operations on Feb. 5:

• Targeted concentrations of Israeli forces southwest of Gaza City with short-range rockets.
• Engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli forces in the axes of west Gaza City, using appropriate weapons.

Hezbollah’s operations on Feb. 5:

• At around 13:35 local time, the Al-Sammaqa site in the Kafr Shuba hills and Shebaa was targeted with missiles.
• At around 13:45 local time, the Ruwaisat Al-Alam site in Shebaa was targeted with missiles.
• At around 15:35 local time, the Al-Sammaqa site in the Kafr Shuba hills and Shebaa was targeted for the second time with missiles.
• At around 17:00 local time, the Yiftah Barracks was targeted with missiles.

Iraqi resistance’s operations on Feb. 5:

• Attacked a target in occupied Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat) with a barrage of drones, causing destruction.

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