Al-Quds Brigades attacks military base in southern Israel
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says it fired a barrage of missiles at an army site around the Nahal Oz Jewish settlement in southern Israel.
A separate statement on Telegram added that Israeli soldiers stationed at the Rafah crossing and its surroundings were hit with mortar rounds.
Nine months on, Hamas fighting capabilities stronger: Abu Obeida
Abu Obeida – the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas – says the group’s fighters are still confronting Israeli forces with “no external help and our people are still steadfast without food or medicine”.
“Our fighters have been fighting for nine months and defeating the enemy’s army, which is being supported by the United States and Britain,” he said in a prerecorded message.
The Qassam Brigade’s 24 battalions, along with other Palestinian armed groups, are fighting Israeli troops and “striking them painfully at every part they raid in the Gaza Strip”, claimed Abu Obeida.
“The battle for Rafah and our fighting in Shujayea and elsewhere is evidence of the strength of our resistance and the failure and defeat of the enemy,” he said.
Israeli army major killed in Rafah
The Israeli military announced that Jalaa Ibrahim, 25, from the Druze town of Sajur, was killed earlier today in the southern Gaza Strip city. His death brings the toll of slain forces in the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza to 326 since late October 2023.
