Feb. 20: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation

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By Press TV Website Staff

Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 29,000 Palestinians so far, including at least 13,000 children, 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 Tuesday, February 20, are as follows:

Al-Qassam Brigades’ operations on Feb. 20:

• Engaged in intense clashes with Israeli forces in the southern axis of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
• Targeted three Israeli military Merkava tanks with Yassin-105 shells in the southern axis of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
• Clashed with a group of Israeli regime soldiers, resulting in casualties, in the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
• Successfully detonated an explosive device on an Israeli military contingent comprising at least six soldiers inside a building west of Khan Younis city, causing casualties.
• Destroyed an Israeli armored personnel carrier (APC) with a Tandem rocket south of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
• Shelled Israeli concentrations south of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City with mortars.  

Al-Quds Brigades’ operations on Feb. 20:

• Targeted Israeli forces in the Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, with 107mm rockets in a joint operation with the Omar al-Qassem groups.
• Targeted an Israeli force holed up in a building in the western camp in Khan Younis city with a TPG rocket.
• Engaged in clashes with Israeli soldiers and their vehicles using machine guns and anti-armor RPGs in the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.  

Al-Aqsa Brigades’ operations on Feb. 20:

• Shelled a gathering of Israeli regime forces and their military vehicles with mortars and short-range rockets east of Jabalia camp.
• Engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli soldiers and their vehicles with machine guns and RPGs in the Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
• Sniped at least two Israeli soldiers positioned on the roof of a house in the "Al-Amal" neighborhood west of Khan Younis city.  

Mujahideen Brigades’ operations on Feb. 20:

• Targeted gatherings of Israeli forces in southeast Gaza City with several short-range rockets.
• Targeted the positioning and deployment of Israeli soldiers, east of Beit Hanoun, with heavy-caliber mortars.  

Hezbollah’s operations on Feb. 20:

• Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Ramim Barracks with rockets.
• Targeted Israeli soldiers near the Ramim Barracks with a Burkan IRAM rocket.
• Targeted the Al-Marj site with appropriate weapons, causing direct hits.
• Targeted the Al-Samaqa site in the occupied Shebaa Farms with rockets.
• Targeted the Ruwaysat Al-Alam site in the occupied Shebaa Farms with rockets.
• Targeted the Ramim Barracks with rockets, causing direct hits.

Yemeni military’s operations on Feb. 20:

• Targeted American warships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea with several kamikaze drones.
• Targeted sensitive Israeli army locations in Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat), south of occupied Palestine, using kamikaze drones.
• Targeted the Israeli "MSC SILVER" ship in the Gulf of Aden with anti-ship missiles.  

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