Sana’a – Saba:
Despite the systematic destruction imposed by the Zionist enemy on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, including the surrounding areas such as the Beit Lahiya project, the town of Beit Lahiya, and the western regions, Jabalia has become a genuine trap for enemy forces. This transformation comes amid the relentless ground assault by Zionist forces, now entering its second month.
For over a month, the Zionist enemy has been attempting to forcibly displace residents of northern Gaza through severe blockades, widespread demolition of homes and buildings, and restrictions on movement, only allowing passage through checkpoints established to inspect those fleeing to Gaza City or the south. By employing tactics of starvation and destruction, the enemy seeks to pressure residents to abandon their homes and move southward.
In response, the Palestinian resistance, led by various factions, particularly the Al-Qassam Brigades—the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)—has been implementing numerous tactics to counter the extensive incursion of enemy forces in northern Gaza. These strategies have led to significant casualties among Zionist soldiers, including deaths and injuries, with reports indicating that high-ranking officers in engineering units and brigade commanders are among the casualties.
One of the tactics employed by the Palestinian resistance is rigging homes with explosives and detonating them when enemy forces approach, often using unexploded ordnance discarded by the enemy, which is repurposed as explosives against Zionist forces. The resistance also utilizes portable anti-tank weaponry, such as the Yassin launcher, RPGs, Tandem launchers, and locally manufactured explosive devices.
In Jabalia camp and the town of Beit Lahiya, the resistance relies on small, highly trained combat units known as "cells," each consisting of five to seven members skilled in sniping, marksmanship, and engineering. These cells engage enemy forces by luring them into ambushes, where they launch concentrated and forceful attacks.
Over the past year, images and videos have documented the extensive destruction inflicted by the Zionist forces on residential areas, mosques, and schools in Gaza. The latest documented footage, a recent aerial image of Jabalia camp, reveals the obliteration of residential blocks and the scale of devastation the camp endures.
The dramatic images of thick clouds of smoke blanketing the entire region went viral on social media, leading Palestinian and Arab users to react intensely, as the scene suggests that the area has been reduced to ashes.
Commenting on this, Palestinian preacher Jihad Heles posted on the platform "X" (formerly Twitter), stating: "This is not the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima; this is Jabalia City, which is now being annihilated in full view of the entire world."
Other bloggers on "X" also commented, saying: "A catastrophic demolition operation is happening right now in northern Gaza to establish a new axis. The Zionist army is crafting military strategies directly over densely populated residential areas, leaving those who choose to stay buried under the rubble; this is a policy of criminal erasure."
More users reacted to the images, expressing: "This is a scene rarely witnessed outside of world wars; Jabalia is being obliterated with the support and blessing of certain Arab regimes. Gaza is being wiped out entirely under the scorched-earth policy pursued by the Zionist army amidst a suffocating siege on families."
Observers believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the U.S. elections to initiate the most dangerous phase of eradicating northern Gaza, pushing the northern residents to flee in order to take control of the land under the pretext of “security.”
Some users voiced astonishment at the global silence surrounding the enemy’s destruction of densely populated Jabalia Camp, noting that Arab countries remain shockingly indifferent as if these events were happening on another planet—even though they could be the first to bear the consequences.
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the massive destruction of homes and buildings in northern Gaza, along with military preparations to retain the territory by paving roads and establishing infrastructure, indicates an intent to annex these areas de facto, setting up settlements similar to those in the West Bank.
In September 2024, the Zionist enemy put forward the "Generals’ Plan" in northern Gaza, aiming to forcibly displace the population of northern Gaza by imposing a total siege, including blocking humanitarian aid, to starve out the remaining civilians and resistance fighters, leaving them with the choice of either death or surrender.
On the ground, today, Wednesday, the Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast scenes of their fighters clashing with Zionist soldiers and machinery in the incursion area in central Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza. The footage shows the targeting of an entrenched Zionist unit in a house near Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in central Jabalia Camp, along with the detonation of a roadside bomb on a “Merkava” tank near the Barawi intersection and preparations for "death traps."
Al-Qassam fighters also succeeded in blowing up an Israeli armored personnel carrier with a ground-mounted Shawaz explosive device near the Barawi intersection in central Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza.
The Al-Qassam Brigades recently released images showing their capture of an Israeli "Quadcopter" drone, which had been conducting intelligence operations in Jabalia Camp last Saturday.
In recent weeks, reports of resistance operations targeting Israeli forces in Jabalia have increased, as more than a month has passed since the Israeli army launched its military campaign in northern Gaza. The Al-Qassam Brigades have consistently documented their actions against enemy forces and equipment across combat fronts, with detailed footage of operations since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion on October 27.
On Tuesday, Al-Qassam announced that they had killed or injured ten Israeli soldiers in an ambush set in the Jabalia area. They reported detonating a heavily explosive device inside a house in the Qasasib neighborhood, targeting ten soldiers as they entered the building on Monday afternoon.
This announcement coincided with the Israeli army’s acknowledgment of the deaths of four soldiers in Jabalia on Monday, although it was unclear whether these were part of the same group that Al-Qassam claimed to have ambushed.
According to Israeli media, 24 soldiers have been killed and dozens more injured since the beginning of the ground operation in Jabalia a month and a half ago. This is the third major ground operation in northern Gaza since previous incursions in December 2023 and May-June of this year.
The ongoing ground offensive has also led to the death of Ihsan Dakseh, commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, in an operation that also seriously injured his deputy and other soldiers in Jabalia. The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for this attack.
Jabalia Camp, referred to as the "Camp of Rage and Revolution," has witnessed extensive clashes and direct attacks on Israeli soldiers. Israeli media recently reported that Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Hamas fighters, who targeted the location shortly after his departure.
Jabalia Camp is one of Gaza's largest Palestinian refugee camps. Established near the town of Jabalia following the 1948 Nakba, it hosts thousands of Palestinians who fled from villages and cities in southern Palestine. Geographically located in northeastern Gaza, it borders the Beit Lahiya project to the north and Jabalia city to the south and west.
Historically, Jabalia Camp has been a hub for Palestinian national and revolutionary action. The first Intifada (Stone Uprising) ignited in Jabalia on December 8, 1987, after a Palestinian worker incident led to the death of four and injury of seven others, sparking an uprising that spread throughout Gaza and the West Bank and continued until the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Since October 5, 2024, Jabalia Camp, Beit Lahiya, and parts of Beit Hanoun have faced an airtight Israeli siege, leading to over a thousand Palestinian deaths, thousands of injuries, and widespread suffering, including starvation and systematic destruction.
With U.S. support, Israel has waged a campaign in Gaza since October 7, 2023, resulting in over 146,000 Palestinian casualties, most of whom are children and women. This has also led to more than 10,000 missing persons amid vast destruction and famine, marking one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history.
Merzah Al-Asal
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