The Palestinian resistance factions led by the Al-Qassam Brigades

The Palestinian resistance factions led by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, were able to kill more than 354 Israeli officers and soldiers and hundreds of settlers, and capture more than 140 others during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation that occurred on the 7th of last October.

According to an information report by Arab media, it took Israel hours to recover from the shock, and over the course of two full days, its army tried to retake the areas surrounding the Gaza Strip that the resistance had entered, which is estimated at 650 square kilometres.

Unprecedented bombing

Warplanes began carrying out one of the largest bombing operations in their history across the Gaza Strip, committing dozens of massacres and striking dozens of facilities, housing, and infrastructure facilities indiscriminately.

After 3 weeks of unprecedented bombing, the occupation army began a ground incursion into the Strip, where vehicles entered without haste from the northern and northeastern regions, and the Gaza and North Gaza governorates were targets of the first phase.

Hit-and-run operations continued between the Israeli army and the resistance factions in the areas of the incursion, and after two months, the Israelis were able to reach the Shifa Medical Complex in western Gaza after killing every person they encountered on their way.

However, the Israeli army suffered heavy losses among officers and soldiers during these two months, as the resistance focused on bombing tunnels and fighting from a distance, but the “Al-Yassin-105” missile was the main target of this stage.

Head to Khan Yunis

The army began withdrawing from the northern Gaza Strip after separating it from the centre, and began exterminating about 700,000 residents, killing and starving them, after they refused to leave their homes towards the south.

With the withdrawal of its forces from the north, the Israeli army began a massive attack on Khan Yunis in the south, claiming the presence of a Hamas stronghold and Israeli prisoners there.