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Palestinian resistance factions are engaged in fierce clashes with the Israeli occupation army in the residential city of Hamad, west of Khan Yunis (south of the Gaza Strip), and they said - in successive statements - that they placed Israeli special forces in precise ambushes.
In this context, the military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, said that the battles and clashes in Khan Yunis are different from those in Gaza, and are optional on the part of the resistance.
Al-Duwairi went on - during his analysis of the field scene on the island - to explain that Hamad Town was bypassed, like other areas of Khan Yunis, months ago, "so that it becomes clear that the Israeli statements are contrary to the truth."
He pointed out that there are 6 brigades in Khan Yunis, including 4 priority infantry forces (elite), in addition to two armored brigades, indicating that resistance operations are currently considered selective after 3 months of continuous aerial bombardment, ground battles, and the bombing of residential squares.
He explained that this bombing and destruction forced the resistance to spend most of its time underground, but its fighters come out at the appropriate and decisive moment to hunt a critical target, such as booby-trapping a house and blowing it up, or luring it to killing areas or blowing up tunnel openings.
As for the current operations of the occupation army, they fall - according to Al-Duwairi - within the framework of searching for specific people based on intelligence information, rather than achieving realistic goals framed geographically.
The military expert cited the Israeli bombing of the Nuseirat camp in the Central Governorate, which - according to official Israeli reports - targeted Marwan Issa, the second man in the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), without any confirmation from the latter of those allegations.
This is why the occupation army believes that prominent leaders of Hamas and its military wing - such as its president in Gaza, Yahya Al-Sinwar, the Phalange’s spokesman, Abu Ubaida, and others - may be present in Hamad Town, according to Al-Duwairi.
It should be noted that the Al-Qassam Brigades announced - on Tuesday - that two Israeli foot forces were ambushed and clashed with their members from zero distance in Hamad Town, noting that they were monitoring the process of evacuating the dead and wounded by occupation aircraft.
Fighters of the Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - also detonated a high-explosive device against an Israeli force of 6 individuals barricaded inside a residential apartment in Hamad Town, and its fighters also bombarded with mortar shells gatherings of occupation soldiers in the center of the city itself.
Source: Al Jazeera