TEHRAN - As the war on Gaza stretches into its second week, resistance missiles strike the heart of the Israeli occupation. 

The military wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam brigade bombarded a mobilization of Israeli forces near Kissufim, in the northwestern Negev desert in the occupied Palestinian territories, located adjacent to the Gaza Strip at an altitude of 92 meters above sea level, with mortar shells. 

On Sunday, footage showed plumes of smoke engulfing the settlement of Sderot, with the regime's troops rushing to evacuate the settlers. 

By Sunday evening, air raid sirens were being heard in Tel Aviv, with the Israeli military warning settlers in the region of incoming missiles.

This is the ninth day in a row that sirens have sounded in Tev Aviv, the Israeli military confirmed. 

On Sunday afternoon, the resistance pressed on with a barrage of rockets aimed at Israeli settlements that it said was in response to the inhumane Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. 

Air raid sirens were activated several times around the Gaza Strip and across the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories on Sunday. 

On Sunday, the Associated Press published photographs showing missiles being fired toward Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli military spokesperson told the media that on Saturday night, there were rockets fired at Tel Aviv as well as other Israeli settlements in the south and that there is "combat" in the Gaza Strip.

By late Sunday evening, sirens were sounding in several areas of the Israeli-occupied territories, with regular Israeli media announcements throughout the day saying that "in the past few moments [there have been] warning of possible rocket attacks."

The Israeli military confirmed that air raid sirens could be heard in Tel Aviv, as well as Israeli settlements including Ashkelon, Lakhish, Beersheba, Sderot as well as other occupied areas surrounding Gaza.

Despite the relentless Israeli propaganda campaign, claiming to target the Palestinian resistance, coupled with its merciless bombardment of Gazan civilians, the resistance continues to target the heart of the occupied territories, military bases and the regime's troops. 

Highlighting the merciless cruelty of Israel's aggression, which has now taken the form of aerial bombings as well as ground and naval shelling, on Sunday morning Gaza's health ministry said the "regime's attacks have left at least 2,329 Palestinian martyrs" since the latest cycle of violence began.

Nearly 10,000 other Palestinians have been injured in the region, it added.

Thousands more remain under the rubble of collapsed residential buildings as a result of the Israeli bombardment. 

The latest numbers reflect those killed and injured since the latest Israeli aggression started on October 6.

On Saturday night, the brigade also announced it had bombed the Israeli Sufa military site with mortar shells.

Footage on Saturday showed a large fire at a car park in the settlement of Ashkelon.

The al-Qassam brigade said it, once again, bombed the "occupation’s Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv with a missile barrage in response to the regime's targeting of Gaza's civilians."

"We bombed Ashkelon and enemy forces’ mobilization near Yad Mordechai (10 km south of Ashkelon settlement) with a missile barrage," it added. 

Israeli media said air raid sirens sounded in the large settlement of Ashkelon, the suburbs of Tel Aviv, as well as settlements surrounding the now totally blockaded Gaza Strip.

Israeli media had reported casualties in the Nahariya settlement in the north as a result of the strike of one of the missiles fired by resistance forces. 

Another Israeli media report said a settler had been killed and more than a dozen injured as a result of missile strikes from Gaza in areas it declined to specify.

The kibbutz settlement near the vicinity of the Gaza Strip was struck with rockets and mortar shells, which led to 5 casualties among Israeli soldiers, with some in serious condition.

Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast scenes of its forces targeting its enemy targets with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

Al-Qassam also pointed out that around 10 other prisoners of war, including 4 foreigners, have died, adding that the prisoners were killed as a result of the Israeli bombing.

Reports from Gaza have confirmed that the Palestinian resistance is still firing rockets at Israeli settlements and Palestinian cities occupied in 1948, despite the ferocity of the aggression that major countries may not tolerate.

Despite the catastrophic conditions in Gaza, the resistance remains strong. It is a sign of the failure of the Israeli occupation to target and harm the resistance.
Sources from the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip told news outlets that the resistance fighters on the field are at the highest levels of readiness and are working according to previously established plans.

The sources revealed that the resistance has a comprehensive defense plan that covers the entire area of ??the Gaza Strip, and it will be activated at the appropriate time.

In the seventh day of the war on Gaza, important developments were witnessed by reporters on the ground who spoke of the field situation in the Gaza Strip, with the continued bombing of the resistance on the occupied settlements both far and near, resulting in direct casualties. 

This was highlighted by the introduction of heavy missiles by the resistance factions into the battle, with the number of occupation deaths reaching more than 1,500, including about 300 soldiers, in addition to more than 2,500 wounded among the Israelis.

The resistance used its Ayyash 250 heavy-load missiles to bomb the Northern Command headquarters in the Israeli city of Safad. 

Ayyash 250 is one of the long-range missiles in possession of the Qassam Brigades, with Israeli media describing it as the longest-range missile launched by the resistance from Gaza.

By Sunday, the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip had fired, on a daily basis, at least 300 missiles at Israeli settlements and the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7. 

According to international reporters stationed in the occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian missiles are hitting their targets, but they cannot announce this clearly due to Israeli censorship. Verified social media videos circulating on regional media confirm the direct hits. 

Resistance targets Israeli plane

On Saturday, the Israeli occupation army spokesman announced that an Israeli Air Force plane was hit by an anti-tank missile fired by Palestinian fighters at the plane.

Israeli media revealed that on the first day of the al-Aqsa Storm Operation, a Palestinian faction shot down an Israeli CH-53 Yasur helicopter.

The Israeli media said that the helicopter was hit by a missile and was forced to land in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli soldiers who were inside were able to escape while the helicopter remained burning on the ground.

U.S. expands military support for Israel

The United States has announced that it will send a second aircraft carrier strike group to the waters near occupied Palestine to support Israel.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the decision to send the USS Dwight D Eisenhower carrier.

The aircraft carrier will join the USS Gerald R Ford carrier strike group, which is already sailing near the occupied Palestinian territories, to bolster America's presence there with a host of destroyers, fighter aircraft and cruisers.

Ismail Haniyeh says the enemy suffered a strategic defeat 

Meanwhile, the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Saturday that "the enemy suffered a strategic defeat that caused a strong earthquake."

In a televised speech, Haniyeh added that the Palestinian resistance began writing history with the al-Aqsa Storm Operation, which "marked the beginning of the occupation’s disappearance from our land and our sanctities."

In a statement, Hamas said, "All the horrific massacres committed by the Zionist enemy did not and will not succeed in breaking the will of our people or dissuading them from their legitimate resistance."

It added, "The occupation’s intensification of its massacres will only increase our people’s determination to continue resistance until the aggression is stopped and defeated."