Israeli Ground Invasion and Resistance in Gaza City
Featured image: Palestinians rally against displacement in Gaza City. Source: Resistance News Network.
On September 16, the Israeli Army announced the launch of a major ground operation to occupy Gaza City, deploying two divisions and preparing a third to join shortly. The Israeli army declared that its offensive in Gaza City is part of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots 2,”. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has murdered 65,174 and injured 166,071 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Not even the Israeli high rank officials can deny the genocidal policies committed by the State of Israel. The former Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has acknowledged that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been murdered or wounded since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza, becoming the first senior Israeli figure to publicly cite a figure close to the figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry.
Before the ground invasion itself, the State of Israel launched a series of airstrikes and bombardments (around 109 according to some sources) carrying out several massacres of civilians, murdering more than 2,000 people in few days and forcing the displacement of thousands of Palestinians and making the health services of Gaza City collapse.
According to the Gaza government media office, Israeli forces have completely or severely destroyed more than 3,600 buildings and high-rises in Gaza City in recent weeks, and demolished about 13,000 tents housing displaced people, The Palestine Chronicle reported. Despite this destruction, approximately one million Palestinians remain in Gaza City and the north, refusing forced displacement.
Gaza City is under a total siege and blackout, as there is a complete cutoff of fixed internet and landline services. The supply of water, electricity, food and health treatment are also under attack by the State of Israel:
At the same time that this ground attack takes place, massive airstrikes across Gaza City continue:
There are reports of several crimes, as for example drones dropping bombs on shelters for displaced people:
The National Resistance Front of Palestine has firmly reacted to this genocidal offensive. The Resistance Security Command in Gaza City confirmed the initiation of a coordinated plan and that the combatants are positioned to counter the occupier attacks:
We share a report of some actions by the Palestinian resistance combatants who are combating and resisting the Israeli attack.
Three Israeli collaborators were executed yesterday, one of them linked to the Israeli intelligence.
Al-Mujahideen Brigades announced that they targeted a Merkava tank with an anti-tank missile three days ago:
Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces released footage of the downing and seizing of Israeli drones over Sheikh Radwan and al-Tuffah in Gaza City:
There are many reports of fierce clashes in the outskirts of Gaza City, and specifically in the Al-Daraj neighborhood area.
Israeli military vehicles were targeted with mortar shells in Shuja’iyya neighborhood:
Israeli soldiers have also been eliminated in other cities, such as in Rafah, where four soldiers were eliminated and 8 more were injured:
A drone was shot down by the Al-Mujahideen Brigades and Al-Qassam Brigades combatants in Rafah:
Al-Qassam Brigades also released footage of an ambush in the east of the Saftawi Junction, west of Jabaliya camp. Two vehicles detonated explosive devices and were destroyed. There are also images and videos of more operations carried out recently:
