In successive statements posted on Telegram, the Brigades said its fighters targeted an Israeli command and control site in the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City with mortar shells, without revealing further details.
It added that on Wednesday, it had shelled a gathering of Israeli soldiers and vehicles inside the Rosary Sisters School in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza.
The Qassam Brigades also confirmed that it launched a barrage of rockets on Wednesday toward the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, "in response to the targeting of civilians" in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation army announced that it intercepted four of these rockets, while a fifth fell in an open area.
This is the first attack on Ashdod since April 6, when the Brigades announced they had bombed the city "in response to the massacres against civilians."
As part of its operations, the Al-Qassam Brigades revealed that its fighters destroyed an Israeli Merkava tank with a landmine on Al-Nasr Street in western Gaza on September 29, 2017. The explosion set the tank on fire, killing and wounding its crew.
According to numerous international reports, Israel imposes strict military censorship on its media regarding human and material losses resulting from strikes by "Palestinian factions." This is for several reasons, including maintaining Israeli morale.
Due to the complex combat conditions in Gaza, the Qassam Brigades are delaying the announcement of some of their field operations. This requires ensuring the safe withdrawal and return of fighters from the front lines, and completing field verification and documentation.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, leaving 66,225 martyrs and 168,938 wounded, most of them children and women, and a famine that has claimed the lives of 455 Palestinians, including 151 children.
