By Ali Karbalaei
Sirens sound in Israeli settlements amid "no military achievements" by the regime’s land forces
TEHRAN- The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it had fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli forces on Tuesday, adding that troops were trying to infiltrate south of Gaza city.
A Hamas spokesman confirmed the presence of Israeli tanks in Salah ad-Deen highway, located in the middle of the Strip, which he pointed out the Palestinian resistance forces have prevented them from moving north toward Gaza city.
Reports from inside Gaza have also said that attacks by the resistance fighters forced the occupation troops to withdraw from the Salah ad-Deen area, east of the Zeitoun neighborhood in central Gaza, following heavy clashes.
Hamas said it also attacked two Israeli tanks and bulldozers in northwest Gaza with missiles.
The al-Qassam brigades added its fighters targeted Israeli forces "with Al-Yassin 105 shells, and destroyed a Zionist vehicle east of Erez (located one kilometer north of the Gaza Strip), with an explosive device and two Al-Yassin 105 shells."
The Israeli military acknowledged that its troops were attacked by anti-tank missiles and machine gunfire.
Reports from inside Gaza say the resistance engaged in heavy clashes with the occupation, east of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, and thwarted the regime's incursion attempt.
The Palestinian resistance is said to have inflicted casualties on the occupation ranks after confronting regime troops at the Karam Abu Salem site east of Rafah near the border with Egypt.
Elsewhere, the resistance engaged in clashes with the occupation forces during their attempt to storm eastern Bureij. Reports point out that the Palestinian resistance launched surface-to-air missiles to confront Israeli aircraft, believed to be drones, in the eastern Gaza Strip.
Violent clashes have also taken place, according to verified reports from inside the coastal sliver, between the resistance fighters and the occupation forces east of the town of al-Qarara, which is located near the southern city of Khan Yunis.
The heavy clashes indicate two main points.
One is that Palestinian resistance factions have, so far, heavily disrupted Israeli attempts to advance into urban areas of the Gaza Strip (whenever they try to do so), restricting the regime's troops to the enclaves' borders and agricultural land, which it had bombed before.
There are "no military achievements so far", according to Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasim.
This is contrary to Western reporters who are spreading unverified information while outside the Gaza Strip and relying mainly on Israeli military statements.
The Israeli military has forbidden any reporters to accompany them into the battlefield.
Experts say this is supposed to avoid reports being published of any ambushes and traps (which the regime's troops have fallen victim to), and would essentially increase the anger of Israelis watching on intensely across the occupied territories and beyond.
In the British capital, Jewish activists from Na’amod (British Jews against occupation) staged a protest by blocking the walkways into the Foreign Office in London, demanding a ceasefire and the release of all hostages.
A photo of the rally shows placards reading "JEWS WILL NOT BE FREE until PALESTINE IS FREE" and "GENOCIDE IS NOT A JEWISH VALUE".
Secondly, the fierce exchange of fire and airstrikes in the Southern Gaza Strip debunk the Israeli myth that it would have been safe for Palestinians to travel south.
A series of Israeli raids have targeted residential areas east of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as other areas in the south where the regime is bombing civilian sites and trying to conduct military operations by land.
Actually, tor the civilian population trapped in Gaza there is nowhere to run or to hide.
A Gaza resident filmed the moment a family car drove on a road toward an Israeli tank in the middle of the Gaza Strip, not realizing it was there.
"The car that was moving forward didn’t realise there was a tank there, he kept moving forward quickly and realised there was a tank in front of him," Yusuf al-Saifi said, adding that the tank fired a shell toward the car killing all the family members inside.
This has left the regime with no other strategy but to bombard residential parts of the Gaza Strip and then try to open some space for its troops to advance.
Whether the strategy will work is up for debate.
So far, civilians across Gaza have paid the price for Israel's relentless airstrikes, turning the international community as well as the Israeli settler population against their government's tactics to allegedly "bring home the captives" and "wipe out Hamas".
More than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day, UNICEF has said.
Briefing the UN Security Council, the organization's executive director Catherine Russell said "after little more than three weeks, the devastating tally is quickly adding up, with rampant grave violations being committed against children.
"This means that more than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza every day - a number which should shake each of us to our core," Russell lamented.
The high level of Israeli bombings so far (from the air, sea and land) has not stopped Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip from launching retaliatory operations.
Israeli media reported that air raid sirens sounded in many settlements, including Netiv Haasara, Kissufim, Erez, Ashkelon, Zikim, and Sderot as a result of Palestinian rocket barrages on Monday and Tuesday.
These are mostly settlements north and northeast of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military claims to be attacking with more intensity.
Israelis also continue to run for cover as sirens sound in Tel Aviv.
Air raid sirens sounded in the Red Sea settlement of Eilat with an Israeli military warning of an approaching "aerial target".
A statement warned of a possible "hostile aircraft intrusion". The Israeli military said its "systems identified an aerial target approaching Israeli (occupied Palestinian) territory".
It did not give further details.
Unconfirmed reports on Israeli radio have suggested that a drone was spotted over the Red Sea.
Hours later, Israeli media reported fresh explosions in Eilat with a flying object spotted.
Eilat is a large southern Israeli settlement that has come under constant fire (during the current war on Gaza) by long-range missiles launched from the strip.
However, reports have emerged that the explosions may been the result of projectiles fired from Yemen in response to the regime's massacre of civilians in Gaza.
Israeli media has reported that "the first test of the land (operations) appears to have been disappointing," noting that "the government is gambling with the lives of soldiers" in Gaza.
This is while the al-Qassam brigade issued another brief statement on Tuesday afternoon stating that it was "eliminating a Zionist force after it entered a building in Beit Hanoun, inside which our fighters were present and ambushed the force while targeting (another) bulldozer and a vehicle."
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