Recruits and Resilience – How Gaza’s Fighters Repurpose Israeli Weapons

Al-Qassam snipers successful Gaza. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

In bluish Gaza, the Qassam Brigades accommodate and resist, turning unexploded Israeli ordnance into weapons portion facing relentless bombardment and humanitarian catastrophe.

The Qassam Brigades, the subject helping of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, person reportedly incorporated caller fighters into their ranks successful bluish Gaza portion utilizing unexploded Israeli ordnance to antagonistic the ongoing subject invasion, according to Israeli media reports.  

Israeli Army Radio elaborate these developments, citing subject sources, during a briefing connected the army’s operations successful bluish Gaza. 

The study noted that immoderate Qassam fighters had been veterans of the Brigades since earlier October 7, 2023, portion others were recently recruited amidst the conflict.  

The Israeli service further disclosed that explosives utilized by the Qassam Brigades were, successful part, crafted from unexploded Israeli munitions. 

This was exemplified by a caller ambush wherever Qassam fighters booby-trapped a location with a repurposed GBU missile, primitively fired by Israeli forces. 

Video footage released by Al-Qassam documented Israeli soldiers entering the booby-trapped gathering moments earlier it was detonated, accompanied by the message: “Your goods person been returned to you.”  

In this video, Al-Qassam fighters are seen luring an Isreali peculiar unit to 1 of the antecedently booby-trapped houses adjacent the Saftawi junction, westbound of Jabaliya camp, successful the bluish Gaza Strip.
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Other Qassam operations person employed Israeli artillery shells mounted connected homemade rockets, underscoring the resourcefulness of Gaza’s absorption successful repurposing force weapons. 

These actions person intensified arsenic Israeli forces proceed their violative successful bluish Gaza, peculiarly successful areas similar Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia.  

Over the past 3 months, Israeli forces person faced important losses successful bluish Gaza, with 43 soldiers reportedly killed, including 3 successful the past 24 hours, according to Israeli Army Radio. 

According to the Palestinian Resistance, however, these figures are overmuch higher.

The army’s stated nonsubjective is to make a “security zone” for Israeli settlers adjacent the Gaza border.

The ongoing Israeli violative successful bluish Gaza, which began connected October 6, 2024, has near a way of devastation. More than 4,000 Palestinians person been killed oregon are missing, and implicit 12,000 person been wounded successful bluish Gaza alone. 

Amid the relentless bombardment, Gaza’s wellness strategy has collapsed, nutrient supplies are critically low, and wide famine looms. 

The United Nations and humanitarian organizations proceed to pass of catastrophic consequences for the 2 cardinal Palestinians trapped successful the enclave. 

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Ongoing Genocide

The ongoing Israeli battle connected the Gaza Strip, which began connected October 7, 2023, has led to a humanitarian situation of unprecedented scale. As the decease toll among besieged and starved Palestinian civilians continues to emergence daily, Israel is presently facing charges of genocide against Palestinians earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, astatine slightest 45,936 Palestinians person been killed, and 109,274 wounded successful Israel’s ongoing genocide successful Gaza starting connected October 7, 2023.

The toll is expected to emergence further, with astatine slightest 11,000 radical inactive unaccounted for, presumed dormant nether the rubble of their homes crossed Gaza.

The war, which Palestinians telephone “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” began aft a subject cognition carried retired by Hamas connected Israeli territory. Israel reports that 1,139 of its soldiers and civilians were killed during the archetypal onslaught connected October 7. However, Israeli media person raised concerns that a important fig of Israeli casualties were caused by ‘friendly fire’ during the assault.

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Human rights organizations, some Palestinian and international, person reported that the overwhelming bulk of the casualties successful Gaza are women and children. The ongoing unit has besides exacerbated an acute famine, with thousands of children among the dead, highlighting the severity of the humanitarian disaster.

The warfare has displaced astir 2 cardinal radical from their homes crossed Gaza, with the bulk of the displaced forced into the already overcrowded confederate portion of the Strip. The colonisation successful Gaza remains trapped successful the ongoing conflict, with small entree to basal necessities specified arsenic food, water, and aesculapian care.

(PC, AJA)