Al Jazeera broadcast exclusive footage documenting a sophisticated and sophisticated ambush carried out by fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades—the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement—against Israeli occupation forces last Wednesday in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
The ambush included detonating a minefield containing a convoy of Israeli vehicles, then targeting a tank's cockpit with an anti-tank missile, as well as targeting homes where occupation soldiers were holed up with anti-fortification missiles.
The complex ambush also included point-blank engagements with Israeli special forces, and included helicopters evacuating the dead and wounded.
The footage showed the preparation and deployment of a minefield consisting of six anti-tank devices, followed by monitoring the advance of the invading vehicles and documenting the moment of their explosion. The Israeli army then intervened with "a fire umbrella and smoke cover after the explosion."
The scenes included the construction of an underground tunnel connection over a period of three days, before the Saraya fighters emerged from it to target a tank cockpit with an RPG.
The footage also documented the moments when the occupation soldiers fled into a nearby battle with the Saraya fighters. One of the houses, which contained 10 soldiers, was targeted with a 107 guided missile, causing it to catch fire.
Saraya fighters also targeted another house, where approximately 20 Israeli soldiers and officers were holed up, with a TPG rocket. This was followed by clashes with machine guns, and fire was also documented in the house.
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Al Jazeera obtained additional details about the operation. The commander of the Shuja'iyya operation in the Al-Quds Brigades confirmed to Al Jazeera that approximately 40 officers and soldiers were targeted, killed or wounded.
The operation commander added that the complex ambush by the Al-Quds Brigades was carried out with prior planning that matched the theater of operations, stressing that the Brigades' fighters controlled the invading occupation forces and their vehicles during the ambush in the Al-Huda Square east of Shuja'iyya.
The operation commander noted that the Israeli soldiers had lost the ability to initiate or react and were content to flee and scream.
He confirmed that Al-Quds Brigades fighters had inspected the charred bodies of Israeli soldiers and officers, accusing Israel of lying, as usual, to cover up its losses.
Last Wednesday, a field commander in the Al-Quds Brigades said the organization's fighters carried out a sophisticated operation targeting dozens of soldiers and a convoy of Israeli military vehicles in the Al-Huda Square, east of the Shuja'iyya neighborhood in Gaza City.
The field commander revealed, via the Al-Quds Brigades' Telegram account, that the complex operation began with the detonation of a minefield by invading Israeli vehicles, forcing soldiers and officers to enter nearby homes "in a frantic manner."
Following this, the Saraya fighters targeted the Israeli forces that had taken refuge inside the houses with a guided missile, then an anti-fortification "TPG" shell.
According to the field commander, the brigades' members surprised the targeted forces and engaged them at close range with light and medium weapons. He confirmed that they killed and wounded the vehicle crews, as well as the targeted officers and soldiers.
In recent weeks, the Al-Quds Brigades has intensified its publication of videos of its operations against Israeli forces and vehicles in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
Days ago, Israeli Army Radio reported that 30 officers and soldiers had been killed in the Gaza Strip—including 21 killed by explosive devices—since Israel resumed the war on March 18.
In the same context, Haaretz reported that 20 Israeli soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in June, while Israeli media reported the deaths of three soldiers on Friday in battles in the north and south of the Strip.
Source: Al Jazeera
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