TEHRAN- The Palestinian resistance in Gaza continues to confront Israeli occupation forces for the 270th day in various parts of the Strip. The latest defensive operations have resulted in confirmed casualties among Israeli soldiers and damage to their vehicles.

The Gaza resistance fighters are carrying out sophisticated operations primarily defending Gaza City in the north and the southern region of the Strip. 

In Gaza City, resistance fighters successfully repelled an attempt by Israeli forces to advance towards Salah al-Din Street. 

Meanwhile, fierce clashes continue to erupt in the Shejaiya neighborhood, where the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, reported targeting two Israeli Merkava 4 tanks with precision explosive devices, causing significant casualties among the Israeli troops.

The Israeli military has acknowledged at least 44 injuries among its ranks over the past 48 hours. 

Additionally, al-Qassam Brigades engaged in intense skirmishes with Israeli forces moving from street to street within Shejaiya, east of Gaza City.

Al-Qassam announced the targeting of an Israeli military unit holed up in a residential building using a TBG shell, resulting in casualties among its members. The brigades also released footage showcasing their fighters confronting and disabling Israeli military vehicles in Shejaiya.

The artillery unit of al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, shelled Israeli forces and their vehicles stationed in Shejaiya with mortar rounds. 

In a separate attack, the al-Quds Brigades announced it was engaging in fierce clashes with Israeli troops and military vehicles in Shejaiya. 

In Rafah, southern Gaza, the resistance forces confronted Israeli incursions into the Saudi neighborhood and the Shaboura refugee camp. 

Al-Qassam Brigades reported a successful operation where they targeted and destroyed an Israeli Merkava 4 tank south of Tiran Street in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah.

Earlier, the armed wing of Hamas lured an Israeli unit into a booby-trapped house, previously used in a sniper operation against Israeli forces east of Rafah. 

The house was detonated upon entry by the Israeli troops, resulting in casualties among them. 

Israeli media sources confirmed the collapse of the booby-trapped building in Rafah, with several soldiers wounded, some critically, who were subsequently evacuated by helicopter to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.

Furthermore, al-Quds Brigades, in their response to ongoing hostilities, announced the targeting of an Israeli Merkava tank with an RPG shell and engaged in combat with Israeli soldiers near the Western Cemetery in the southwest of Rafah. 

The brigades also reported launching rockets targeting an Israeli military command center at the Ami’ad military base using “107 rockets”.

To counter Israeli military movements, al-Quds Brigades released footage of multiple explosive devices being detonated against advancing Israeli military vehicles in the southwestern part of Rafah. 

In other operations, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad declared it had launched a concentrated rocket attack targeting Israeli settlements in the Gaza periphery. 

Israeli media sources reported an “unusual barrage” of rocket fire towards the Gaza periphery, consisting of 20 rocket shells. The barrage triggered alarm sirens in several settlements.

The Israeli military acknowledged the death of one soldier and the serious injury of another during confrontations with the Palestinian resistance in southern Gaza. Additionally, Israeli media reported that nine soldiers were injured in the enclave, with three in critical condition.

Furthermore, Israeli sources reported that one soldier was killed and ten others were injured, including three critically, in an explosion that occurred during the demolition of a tunnel opening in Gaza.

In another major sign that Israeli forces are finding it extremely difficult to defeat the Palestinian resistance, the occupation army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the eastern half of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Much of the city has already been destroyed in what was a very long air and ground assault that was wrapped up earlier this year. The Israeli army withdrew under fire, and it appears that the Palestinian resistance forces have regained control of the area. 

Large numbers of Palestinians have since moved back in to escape the indiscriminate Israeli bombardment of Rafah.

The evacuation order of Khan Younis’s residents is a signal that exhausted Israeli forces will be ordered back in to prolong the genocide. 

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has accused Israeli finance minister Bezalzel Smotrich of being “a key mastermind of Israel’s genocidal policies against the Palestinians.” 

“Even considering the significant political pressure on the ICC, I really don’t understand why the ICC Prosecutor has not yet requested an arrest warrant against this man, who is a key mastermind of Israel’s genocidal policies against the Palestinians,” she stated in a post on social media.