Palestinians, Lebanese celebrate Hamas capture of Israeli troops
People in the occupied West Bank and Lebanon have taken to the streets to rejoice at a fresh deadly operation conducted by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas against Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip.
The celebrations took place on Sunday at the Palestinian city of Dura in the southern West Bank, as well as the refugee camps of Ain al-Hilweh, Nahr el-Bared, el-Buss and Rashidieh in Lebanon.
They came after the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, carried out a “complex” operation, against the occupation forces in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp.
In a recorded message released early on Sunday, al-Qassam’s spokesperson Abu Obeida said the operation saw resistance fighters “luring a Zionist force into an ambush inside a tunnel” and killing, wounding, and capturing all its members.
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Hamas released a video that showed a bloodied Israeli soldier being dragged along the ground in a tunnel and photos of seized military fatigue and rifle.
Israel unleashed a genocidal US-backed war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after Hamas conducted a historic operation against the usurping regime in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
However, almost eight months into the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has failed to achieve its objectives in the besieged Gaza despite killing at least 35,903 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 80,420 others.
Ansarullah hails Hamas ‘heroic’ raid
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, meanwhile, praised Hamas’s “heroic” operation against the Zionist enemy.
In a statement, the Ansarullah political bureau said the resistance fighters had made the Palestinian nation proud with their “bravery” and amazed the entire world with their “patience, steadfastness, and victories.”
“This operation is one of the heroic operations that devastates the Israeli enemy and inflicts heavy losses upon them,” it added.
“These operations come within the context of the natural and legitimate right to respond to the genocidal massacres in the Gaza Strip.”
