In Gaza, Palestinian Resistance to Apartheid Israel's Blitzkrieg Intensifies
Apartheid Israel escalated its attack on Palestinian Gaza on Tuesday night, intensifying their aerial bombardment, leveling Palestinian farmland, and deploying infantry and tanks into central Gaza for the first time since the most recent operation began.
While ground forces moved a few hundred meters into Gaza, the Zionist occupiers' most brazen attack was an F-16 air raid launched in Gaza City nominally targetting Commander-General Muhammad Deif and other members of Hamas's military wing, the Izzeddin Al-Qassam Brigade. The strike failed to take out Dief, but Ma'an reports that it "killed at least nine Palestinian citizens from one family, including Dr. Abu Selmiyah, his wife Salwa Matar, 40, their four sons and two children one recently born."
In a statement released shortly after the attack, the Brigade promised retaliation:
In spite of their heavy losses, both Hamas's Izzeddin Al-Qassam Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committee's An Nasser Salah Addin Brigades continue to resist the Zionist invasion.
Warning last weekend that "Olmert's chair will be shaken, and the Israeli plans which aim to slaughter the Palestinian cause will fail," and pledging to "fight the enemy inside his own home because this enemy is commiting crimes against our people and conducting a war against everything which is Palestinian," PRC spokesman Abu Mujahid called for the Palestinian people to be "patient as the pain of the enemy is more than our pain."
On Saturday afternoon, Ma'an reported that the Brigades "shot an Israeli soldier and destroyed a tank eastern Gaza," stating that "the soldier was stationed on top of a tank at Mansurah in eastern Gaza."
Also on Saturday, the Izzeddin Al-Qassam Brigade's spokesman:
Crucially though, Hamas and the PRC are not the only groups resisting the Zionist onslaught. This hydra-headed and dynamic Palestinian Resistance has dramatically complicated the situation for Apartheid Israel, challenging the invasion in myriad ways in a host of forms.
The Fatah-affiliated Al Aqsa Brigades continues to launch rocket attacks against the Zionist-occupied Jim Crow city of Sderot in response to "Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people and children in the Gaza Strip."
Additionally, Al Aqsa recently announced the launching of joint operations with two other military organizations, the DFLP affiliated National Resistance Brigades and the PFLP's military wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. On 8 July, the three groups fired 2 more rockets into Sderot "in response to Israeli massacres and aggressions against the Palestinian people in the northern Gaza Strip and in response to the ongoing Israeli air strikes against the Strip."
Earlier today, the same three groups announced that they had "launched two homemade projectiles at a group of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles stationed in the area of Nahal Oz... east of Gaza City outside the Gaza Strip."
Monday evening, Al Aqsa and Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al Quds Brigades, told Ma'an that they had, "successfully launched projectiles from the West Bank at towns inside Israel for the first time," a move that marks a qualitative transformation in the ability of the Palestinian Resistance to strike into the heart of Apartheid Israel. The report continues:
While ground forces moved a few hundred meters into Gaza, the Zionist occupiers' most brazen attack was an F-16 air raid launched in Gaza City nominally targetting Commander-General Muhammad Deif and other members of Hamas's military wing, the Izzeddin Al-Qassam Brigade. The strike failed to take out Dief, but Ma'an reports that it "killed at least nine Palestinian citizens from one family, including Dr. Abu Selmiyah, his wife Salwa Matar, 40, their four sons and two children one recently born."
In a statement released shortly after the attack, the Brigade promised retaliation:
Our reaction to this massacre will be painful and strong for the Zionists and we will make the enemy leadership sorry for their crime.Yesterday's escalation in violence comes after a brief lull in the Zionist ground assault after its retreat from the areas of Northern Gaza that it re-occupied last week, a pullback resulting from the furious Palestinian Resistance coupled with the storm of international outcry that followed from the more than 60 Paletinian civilians killed by the Zionist blitzkrieg.
This new crime is a changing point in the rules of the battle. We will choose the rules of the game in the coming period.
Our message to the Zionists is that your leaders are leading you to violence from which no one will be safe and when they target civilians they decided for you to be the target of our resistance.
In spite of their heavy losses, both Hamas's Izzeddin Al-Qassam Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committee's An Nasser Salah Addin Brigades continue to resist the Zionist invasion.
Warning last weekend that "Olmert's chair will be shaken, and the Israeli plans which aim to slaughter the Palestinian cause will fail," and pledging to "fight the enemy inside his own home because this enemy is commiting crimes against our people and conducting a war against everything which is Palestinian," PRC spokesman Abu Mujahid called for the Palestinian people to be "patient as the pain of the enemy is more than our pain."
On Saturday afternoon, Ma'an reported that the Brigades "shot an Israeli soldier and destroyed a tank eastern Gaza," stating that "the soldier was stationed on top of a tank at Mansurah in eastern Gaza."
Also on Saturday, the Izzeddin Al-Qassam Brigade's spokesman:
Presented parts of destroyed Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers after the Israeli forces withdrew from the region that they raided for two days in northern Gaza...During the course of the Zionist blitzkrieg, the Al-Qassam Brigades have launched a litany of successful military operations, attacking tanks, military positions, and firing 'Qassam' rockets against the Jim Crow city of Ashkelon similar to those other groups have fired elsewhere.
Eyewitnesses in the region confirmed that during the invasion about 30 Israeli military vehicles were exploded and burned in front of their eyes while Israeli tanks surrounded them and invaded their homes, carrying out arrest operations.
Crucially though, Hamas and the PRC are not the only groups resisting the Zionist onslaught. This hydra-headed and dynamic Palestinian Resistance has dramatically complicated the situation for Apartheid Israel, challenging the invasion in myriad ways in a host of forms.
The Fatah-affiliated Al Aqsa Brigades continues to launch rocket attacks against the Zionist-occupied Jim Crow city of Sderot in response to "Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people and children in the Gaza Strip."
Additionally, Al Aqsa recently announced the launching of joint operations with two other military organizations, the DFLP affiliated National Resistance Brigades and the PFLP's military wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. On 8 July, the three groups fired 2 more rockets into Sderot "in response to Israeli massacres and aggressions against the Palestinian people in the northern Gaza Strip and in response to the ongoing Israeli air strikes against the Strip."
Earlier today, the same three groups announced that they had "launched two homemade projectiles at a group of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles stationed in the area of Nahal Oz... east of Gaza City outside the Gaza Strip."
Monday evening, Al Aqsa and Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al Quds Brigades, told Ma'an that they had, "successfully launched projectiles from the West Bank at towns inside Israel for the first time," a move that marks a qualitative transformation in the ability of the Palestinian Resistance to strike into the heart of Apartheid Israel. The report continues: