May 18: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation

By Press TV Website Staff

Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed 35,400 Palestinians so far, including more than 16,000 children, resistance groups in Palestine and across the region continue their operations against the Tel Aviv regime and its Western backers.

The major operations carried out by the Palestinian and regional resistance groups on Saturday, May 18, are as follows:

Al-Qassam Brigades’ operations on May 18: 

• Sniped an Israeli soldier on the "Netzarim" axis south of Gaza City.
• Targeted an Israeli military Merkava 4 tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Al-Tannour neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
• Launched a SAM-7 missile at an Apache helicopter of the Israeli forces north of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Targeted an Israeli military Merkava tank using an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the vicinity of the cemetery, east of the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
• Targeted and destroyed an Israeli military Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Targeted a D9 Israeli military bulldozer with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Targeted an Israeli military command and control center east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
• In cooperation with the Al-Quds Brigades, targeted the operations command headquarters east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip with several mortar shells.
• Ambushed an Israeli infantry force and detonated an anti-personnel explosive device on them around the Al-Tabaeen Mosque east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Targeted two Israeli military Merkava tanks with two Al-Yassin 105 shells and an armored personnel carrier with a guerilla action explosive device. Also targeted a special Israeli force barricaded in a building with a TBG shell.
• Targeted an Israeli military troop carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the vicinity of the cemetery, east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Targeted an Israeli military’s D9 bulldozer with a Shuath explosive near Haroun Mosque, east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

Al-Quds Brigades’ operations on May 18:

• Bombed the occupied city of Asqalan with a barrage of rockets.
• Engaged in fierce clashes with a gathering of Israeli soldiers and their military vehicles penetrating the axis of advance east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Bombed a gathering of Israeli soldiers and their military vehicles near the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah, with a barrage of heavy caliber mortar shells.
• In a joint operation with the Al-Qassam Brigades, bombed the command and control center of the Israeli military in the "Netzarim" axis south of Gaza City with mortar shells.
• Bombed a group of Israeli soldiers and their military vehicles in the vicinity of the "Al-Tabaeen Mosque" east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with mortar shells.
• In a joint operation with the Martyr Jihad Jibril Brigades, bombed the "Magen" military site east of the Central Governorate with a barrage of 107mm rockets.
• Bombed a gathering of Israeli soldiers and their military vehicles in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
• Targeted an Israeli military gathering around the "Sofa" military support site with a barrage of type-107 rockets.
• Engaged in fierce clashes, using appropriate weapons, with Israeli soldiers and their military vehicles penetrating the axis of advance east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Bombed a command and control center of the Israeli military east of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades’ operations on May 18:

• Engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli forces and their military vehicles using appropriate weapons on the Jabalia camp axis of advance in the northern Gaza Strip.

Mujahideen Brigades’ operations on May 18:

• Targeted an Israeli military tank with an RPG shell in the axis of advance east of Jabalia, north of Gaza.
• In cooperation with Al-Quds Brigades, targeted and destroyed an Israeli military tank with an anti-armor shell in the Jabalia axis of advancement, north of Gaza.

Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces’ operations on May 18:

• Targeted a group of Israeli forces penetrating the Rafah land crossing and the “Sofa” military support site east of the city of Rafah with 107-type short-range rockets.

Hezbollah’s operations on May 18:

Eastern sector:

• At around 14:45 local time, surveillance equipment of the Israeli military at the Ramtha site was targeted with appropriate weapons.
• At around 13:30 local time, Israeli soldiers were targeted in the Ramim barracks with a barrage of drones.
• At around 16:10 local time, Israeli soldiers were targeted at the Al-Baghdadi site.
• At around 17:20 local time, the Al-Samaqa site in Lebanon's Kfar Shuba was targeted with missiles.
• At around 18:50 local time, Al-Baghdadi’s site was targeted with artillery shells.

Western sector:

• At around 09:45 local time, Israeli soldiers in the Branit Barracks were targeted with missiles.
• At around 14:30 local time, the Ras al-Naqoura naval site was targeted with artillery shells.
• At around 15:25 local time, surveillance equipment at the Raheb site was targeted.
• At around 16:00 local time, the headquarters of the Liman Battalion was targeted with artillery shells.
• At around 16:45 local time, surveillance equipment of the Israeli military at the Hadab Yarin site was targeted.
• At around 18:00 local time, Israeli soldiers in the Raheb site were targeted with missiles.
• At around 18:15 local time, surveillance equipment in the Branit Barracks was targeted.

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