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7 months

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Aloul who lost most of his family, including four children, in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip just days ago, talks about his tragedy.

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An Israeli soldier is seen taking cover behind a bound Palestinian prisoner, using the Palestinian as a human shield. Footage taken today at the Al-Arroub refugee camp, in the Occupied West Bank.

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The BBC doubts Israel's narrative about Gaza's #AlShifaHospital being used as a Hamas command and control centre or military base of operations. Several discrepancies, such as extra guns appearing where there weren't any, were noted by BBC journalists.

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6 months

Part 2 showing Qassam engaging IDF inside Ibn Uthaymeen school. In the video, you can clearly hear the panicked screams of Israel's soldiers.

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7 months

New Qassam video showing combat over the past two days. Much to dissect here, but it's clear their small unit tactics have been optimised to their environment, fields of fire being established within the ruins of Gaza, ensuring ability to strike Israel's armour in blindspots.

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Footage of Shia of Indian descent and now demoted @MSNBC show host @mehdirhasan making historically incorrect and sectarian remarks against Sunni Muslims during a sermon. "The first Islamophobe was Mu'awiya bin Abi Sufyan... The first Islamophobic media was Mu'awiya's".

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7 months

Qassam release new footage showing its fighters again using tunnels to ambush Israel's armoured vehicles, close the distance to such a degree that they're able to place explosives on the vehicles directly, then finish them off with a point blank Yassin 105 rocket.

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7 months

Türkiye/Turkey deploys tear gas and water cannons, beating and arresting protesters who came to demonstrate outside the US occupied İncirlik Air Base. This is the same airbase used by the US, with Turkish permission, to bomb Iraq during the illegal 2003 invasion.

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7 months

On the @KimIversenShow , Mark Hanson AKA Hamza Yusuf, offered rationalisations for Benjamin Netanyahu's ongoing genocide in Gaza, saying Palestinians killed his brother. Yonatan Netanyahu was killed by Ugandan soldiers who returned fire after he fired at them in 1976.

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7 months

Dr Sara has been working under fire for 33 days nonstop ever since Israel's air and now land campaign against Gaza began. She still has the ability to show care and comfort to the families of civilians killed by Israeli forces.

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6 months

Latest Hamas footage aired on Al Jazeera showing repeated close-quarter engagements in Gaza between Qassam fighters and Israel's forces. Many Merkava tanks are hit from close range. Footage also shows grenade attacks against IDF infantry.

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1 year

The next time Western democracies complain about Russia interfering in their electoral process, take a quick glance about how they brazenly weaponise their mass media to interfere in Turkey's politics. Imagine what else they're doing.

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7 months

Latest Qassam footage of combat inside Gaza City itself. Again, Palestinian fighters are able to close the distance to such a degree they're able to plant a charge directly on the door of one of Israel's armoured personnel carriers.

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5 months

Latest Qassam video from Khan Yunis. Again, a Qassam fighter emerges from a hole, plants an explosive directly onto the turret of a Merkava IV tank before disappearing back down the hole and detonating the explosive.

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6 months

Footage reveals the extreme close range Qassam fighters are able to close in on IDF bivouacking in Gaza. The implication being that Israel believes these areas to be secure and cleared that they can camp. The reality, as this footage demonstrates, is that this is not the case.

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7 months

Qassam engaging IDF forces east of Johr al-Deek, central Gaza. Again, fighting in fields and more agricultural territory can be seen clearly in the video, suggesting battle lines have hardly shifted since Israel launched its ground assault.

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3 months

More Qassam combat footage released today, showing close-quarter engagements with Israel's armoured units in Tel al-Zaytun, Gaza City. Again, this is an area the IDF claimed to have subdued Hamas fighters in, yet 139 days of combat has proven that untrue.

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7 months

New footage from Qassam shows close combat, for the first time, with IDF soldiers in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza near Israel's Erez crossing. Qassam have lured troops into ambushes and pre-prepared kill zones so they can be engaged with marksmen.

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5 months

At precisely midnight local time, the Qassam Brigades targeted Tel Aviv with a large volley of rockets. This will mark their first attack against Israel of 2024.

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4 months

Qassam release latest Gaza combat footage, showing counter-sniper operations (including night engagements), ambushes against Israeli armour, and medical evacuations of IDF troops.

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6 months

Qassam ambushed Israel's troops in Juhr al-Dik, central Gaza, yesterday. The end of the footage shows an IDF soldier being dragged away.

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7 months

Qassam release footage showing some technical specifications of the now infamous Yassin-105 that has been used extensively (and very successfully) against Israel's forces in Gaza.

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7 months

Latest Qassam video shows how they booby-trapped an area in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza near a tunnel. The trap was rigged to detonate if the CCTV was tampered with. There is no footage of the aftermath.

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5 months

Qassam video demonstrating an ambush against an IDF infantry section who flee to a nearby housing complex and get pinned down. Israeli reinforcements get turned back by a separate Qassam team armed with RPGs.

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5 months

The aftermath of one of the US airstrikes against the pro-Iran Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq after they flew a drone at US forces posted in Erbil. One Shia fighter was killed.

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6 months

Qassam video showing one of its sharpshooters taking out what is claimed to be an officer in Israel's invasion force near Jabalia, Gaza.

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4 months

Qassam sniper kills an IDF sniper as a "gift" to the "resistance" in Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq. Irrespective of their sympathy towards Gaza, such statements will alienate the Sunni Arab majority of the Middle East, who have been repeated victims of Iran's regional ambitions.

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7 months

Qassam footage from today shows how they were able to attach explosives directly onto another Israeli tank. The end of the video shows numerous captured Israeli weapons, armour and equipment, as well as an IDF dog tag.

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7 months

On the campaign trail, @realDonaldTrump confirms that after the US assassinated IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, Iran contacted the US to say they would fire a barrage of missiles at their base in Iraq that would intentionally miss.

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6 months

The Grand Omari Mosque in Gaza's old city has been destroyed by Israel. The mosque was first built in the 7th century, before the current building was built by the Mamluk sultans in the 13th century & rebuilt by the Ottomans in the 16th century. It must now be rebuilt again.

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7 months

Technical specifications for Qassam's domestically produced TBG 105mm rounds. The weapon is interchangeable with the Yassin-105 anti armour round, giving tactical flexibility for fireteams defending Gaza.

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7 months

Footage of Qassam fire teams engaging IDF armoured vehicles west of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. This is very near the Israel controlled Erez border crossing. This combat occurred between 5-6 November.

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5 months

Qassam release combat footage from east of the Tufah neighbourhood and al-Daraj. IDF infantry is confirmed among the dead, and armoured vehicles are left abandoned as burning hulks by Israel.

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6 months

Qassam targeting a Merkava tank in northern Gaza. Recall that Israel claimed it had largely pacified the northern part of the Strip.

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4 months

In Khan Yunis, Qassam set up a modified anti-personnel Claymore mine with a car parking assist camera for precise remote detonation. Two officers are killed as Qassam fighters say, "Let them entertain each other (in death)".

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5 months

Fighting in Jabalia, northern Gaza and right near the border with Israel, continues despite weeks of the IDF claiming it had crushed Palestinian resistance in those areas. This Qassam video comes as Israel confirms 21 IDF troops were killed in a single day yesterday.

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6 months

Israel has repeatedly denied that Qassam tactics and armaments have been able to penetrate IDF armour. This video from Gaza's Shuja'iya neighbourhood shows Israeli armour being engaged at close range with tandem charge Yassin-105 munitions, with APCs destroyed and set ablaze.

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7 months

Hamas media claims Qassam have killed 9 IDF soldiers, including the six pictured below, in clashes in Gaza.

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7 months

Qassam release footage of combat in Juhr al-Deek, central Gaza's eastern frontier. Fighters can be seen setting up mines, using TBG rounds against fortified IDF positions, and engaging in firefights with Israel's soldiers.

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7 months

Latest Qassam video shows IDF forces inside Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, using abandoned buildings as fortified positions. They are engaged by what is likely a TBG-105mm followed by small arms fire.

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6 months

Part 2 of Qassam footage in Khan Yunis, central Gaza. Again, Israel's armour is being engaged from point blank range, including taking Yassin-105 rounds to the rear where armour is weaker.

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3 months

Qassam footage of combat east of Gaza, in the Zaytoun neighbourhood. The video shows predominantly Yassin-105 and IED attacks, as well as mortar fire dedicated "to the resistance in southern Lebanon".

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7 months

16 year old Abdullah Muqbil was shot dead by IDF troops near Hebron in the West Bank. It's noteworthy that, again, Israel is killing Palestinians in places their nominal ally, the Palestinian Authority, is supposed to control.

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3 months

Qassam's drone force manages to drop bomblets on IDF encampments in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. This is an area Israel repeatedly said Qassam had been degraded to the point of minimal resistance, yet this footage suggests the skies above Gaza are still hostile to the IDF.

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7 months

Qassam release combat footage from 2 November, showing IDF armoured units being prevented from penetrating Khan Yunis, central Gaza. Footage includes night operations, and shows damaged armour being withdrawn back to rear areas behind the front lines in Israel.

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5 months

More Qassam footage showing a number of different engagements, most prominently three IDF soldiers getting hit with a high explosive munition while hunkered down in a building in Gaza. All three are killed, and their equipment captured.

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5 months

Qassam continue to engage Israel's forces in Gaza City - a city the IDF has repeatedly stated where they have degraded Hamas' combat capacity and destroyed their command and control capabilities.

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6 months

Part 1 of a more than 4 minute photo, showing Qassam ambushing Israel's forces on the outskirts of Khan Yunis, as well as other locations such as the abandoned Ibn Uthaymeen school.

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8 months

Outside Fatih Camii, İstanbul.

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7 months

Qassam release another video showing infantry combat against IDF special forces yesterday in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip. Qassam operatives can be seen firing repeated RPG volleys at what appears to be a bombed out building where Israel's SF soldiers are bunkered.

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5 months

Multiple direct hits on Israel's armoured units east of Gaza City. Qassam fighters can also be seen getting angles of fire on a position held by IDF infantry, using small arms fire and a TBG anti-fortification round.

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6 months

More Qassam combat footage from Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. Israel's armour can be seen with their distinctive "cope cage" canopies to protect against drone bomblets, but getting struck by Yassin-105 rounds in the sides and rear.

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4 months

Qassam video showing multiple strikes on Israel's armoured vehicles in Khan Yunis, south Gaza. The end of the video also shows a captured Israeli quadcopter surveillance drone.

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4 months

Former foreign minister of Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari, says Iran's infamous Qassem Soleimani used to come to Baghdad's Green Zone on a near daily basis right before the eyes of the US occupation who stood by and allowed him to carry on with his business.

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7 months

Footage from Qassam mortar teams engaging IDF forces inside the Gaza Strip today.

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7 months

With potable water continuing to be cut off from the Gaza Strip by Israel, people such as this young boy filmed today have been gathering rainwater to survive. Preventing a civilian population from accessing necessary water supplies can be a war crime.

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6 months

The sixth batch of prisoners have been exchanged between Hamas and Israel. Qassam fighters are seen receiving high fives, smiles and one former prisoner blows a kiss to a Qassam fighter as she departs.

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7 months

Al Jazeera Arabic's Osman Ayfarah asks an EU official if they consider Israel's actions in Gaza to be war crimes. He responds he's "not a lawyer". When Osman asks him if Hamas committed war crimes on 7 October, he answers "Yes" without hesitation, then denies double standards.

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6 months

Qassam score a direct hit against one of Israel's most advanced Merkava IV main battle tanks yesterday, and claim to have penetrated the hull and set it ablaze with a Yassin-105.

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5 months

Qassam release footage showing fighting in Gaza City itself. IDF armour and infantry are engaged, and the end of the video shows captured weapons and pieces of armour plate from Israel's damaged or destroyed tanks.

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1 year

This appears to be a variation of a culinary favourite in Turkey, "İmam Bayıldı". The gentleman in the fez who was attacked by the losing Kemalist was reported to have named the extra cold dish, "gavur bayıldı". Apparently infinitely tastier.

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Following Israel's massacre of some 100 Palestinians in the Al-Shifa Hospital - reportedly all civilians - Qassam today released footage of them striking Israel's tanks outside the hospital in Gaza City.

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7 months

The moment the Khalid bin al-Walid Mosque in Khan Yunis is destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. There are no Qassam fighters or any other armed men in the vicinity. Intentionally destroying places of worship is a war crime under the Rome Statute.

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4 months

Hazara Shia who came to the UK from Afghanistan in 2016 & was granted asylum after claiming to convert to Christianity has left a mother & her two daughters with "extensive" burns in an alkali attack. Police say his motivation for the attack is unknown.

Clapham attack suspect Abdul Shokoor Ezedi convicted of sex offence in 2018

A new image shows Abdul Shokoor Ezedi with facial injuries, as it is revealed he was granted asylum in 2021 or 2022.

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Qassam using TBG-105s to strike at IDF infantry in Jabalia, Gaza. It is worth noting that Israel had previously claimed to have quashed Palestinian resistance in these areas.

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Qassam release footage of an ambush operation inside Israel. A car laden with explosives is driven to a location, and an operative opens fire to draw IDF units to the area before escaping. The IED is then detonated. This sort of attack shows Hamas still has significant capacity.

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1 year

This is only the beginning. When Kemalists first came to power a century ago, they Latinised the Turkish language, forced Muslims to wear Western hats (on pain of death), and even changed the Adhan from Arabic to Turkish. Until Erdoğan, Turkey was anti-Islam, not just secular.

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“Do not speak Arabic here, this is Turkey”. An Al-Jazeera reporter was harassed by a Turkish political volunteer for speaking Arabic, while she was live, covering an opposition party’s campaign in the Turkish elections

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Qassam release a video from Sheikh Ridwan, Gaza, shot at the end of December. In the clip, they lure a section of Israel's troops and two dogs into a tunnel before detonating the tunnel on the IDF.

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Latest Qassam video showing combat in Gaza City and its outskirts. The footage shows example of urban fighting as well as night operations using anti-infantry munitions. The end of the video shows abandoned Israeli body armour and weapons on a blood-stained floor.

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Qassam combat footage on the outskirts of Gaza City. The end of the video shows IDF medical evacuation teams taking wounded and dead troops back to Israel.

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Qassam engaged 10 IDF special forces soldiers yesterday who were bunkered in a Palestinian home whose inhabitants were forced out by Israel.

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Combat from central Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, again showing Qassam engaging Israel's armour at close range.

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Close range Yassin-105 strikes against IDF armour in Khan Yunis, as well as a Qassam sharpshooter taking out an IDF soldier before he's MedEvac'd back to Israel.

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Qassam footage showing joint attacks against Israel's troops with Saraya al-Quds in the Bureij refugee camp. The last strike is a point-blank hit to the rear of a Namer APC with a Yassin-105, with IDF destroyed equipment on display.

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3 months

Qassam fighters release new footage from central Gaza (Medinat al-Zahra) showing them popping up out of foxholes and hitting moving armoured vehicles. Israel has yet to succeed in any of its stated military objectives. Meanwhile, the civilian death toll continues to climb.

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1 year

This seems to be happening a lot lately.

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Israel ordered a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine's West Bank. One of its soldiers ended up falling into a sewage opening, likely the result of Israeli bulldozers being used in the camp (and elsewhere) to destroy infrastructure.

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Adnan Fayhan is appointed governor of Iraq's Babylon governorate. Fayhan is a senior member of Asaib Ahl ul-Haq, a Shia militia with extensive ties to Iran, and was personally involved in the sectarian cleansing of Jurf al-Sakhr from its Sunni inhabitants in 2014.

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Qassam footage purporting to show combat against Israeli special forces in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. Infantry combat is likely to increase as Israel's invasion of Gaza carries on and deepens.

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4 months

A Qassam commander records a message accusing Israel of lying about its justifications for killing civilians in Gaza. He specifically says that Qassam deployed in areas the IDF ordered evacuated of civilians, yet the IDF refuse to face them in battle "as men".

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Another salvo of rockets fired from Gaza tonight, 8 January 2024, targeting Tel Aviv, Israel. Three months since the war began, Israel has not achieved a single one of it's military objectives. Meanwhile, 22,000 Palestinians, 70% of whom are women and children, have been killed.

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Qassam taking advantage of an early morning mist to launch ambushes east of Jabalia. 107 days into the war with Israel, Gaza is still not safe for Israel's forces.

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Qassam continue to successfully fire rockets at targets inside Israel, despite intense Israeli military action in Gaza over the past 83 days.

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New footage from Qassam, showing another daring attack in Gaza, mounting an explosive on the underside of a Merkava IV. The fighter is spotted by one of Israel's sentries, but it's too late as he extracts himself and blows up the tank.

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Qassam laced a building with bombs, before luring a fire team of IDF special forces into the trap. A captured IWI Negev light machine gun can be seen at the end of the footage.

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5 months

Qassam destroy one of Israel's armoured personnel carries in the Maghazi area, central Gaza. This happened earlier today.

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4 months

Our @TalAbdulrazaq spoke to @SkyNews yesterday on the US's "retaliation" against Iran-backed Shia groups who killed three American troops last week. He argued that Washington had failed to deter Tehran by failing to strike high value Iranian targets, including inside Iran.

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Qassam engaging Israel's armoured units and infantry in Gaza's Maghazi and Bureij camps. Pieces of armour are displayed, showing Yassin-105 rounds are effective against IDF armoured vehicles. Body armour used by IDF troops are also displayed amidst pools of blood.

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6 months

Combat in Khan Yunis, showing footage of the dogs used by Israel to scout out Qassam tunnels. Qassam fighters also display captured equipment and Israeli national ID cards of vanquished IDF soldiers.

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5 months

Saraya al-Quds attack one of Israel's Merkava tank in the Tufah district, eastern Gaza

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Battles are ongoing in Khan Yunis, south-central Gaza. Qassam release a video showing remains of Israel's tracked vehicles, some of which appear to be IDF logistics transports.

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