Al-Qassam Brigades target Israeli Merkava tank south of Khan Younis

GAZA, June 12 (YPA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades—the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)—announced on Wednesday evening that they had targeted an Israeli Merkava tank in southern Khan Younis.

In a brief statement, the group said that its fighters targeted Zionist Merkava tank with a “Yassin 105” shell near the Abu Sharkh Junction in the Al-Batn Al-Sameen area south of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

In a related development, sources within the Palestinian resistance revealed that a recent top-tier operation carried out east of the town of Abasan, in eastern Khan Younis, resulted in the injury of two Israeli soldiers. The operation reportedly utilized an anti-personnel missile of Israeli origin.

Speaking to Shehab News Agency on Wednesday, the sources said that the missile had previously been in the possession of a group known as the “Abu Shabab Gang,” which had operated in the southern Gaza Strip. Resistance forces had since dismantled the group and seized its weapons and equipment.

The sources emphasized that the use of this weapon in the operation reflects the resistance’s capability to repurpose enemy tools for their own objectives—turning smuggled arms once used for criminal ends into instruments of resistance and defense for the Palestinian people.

The operation is among several recent incidents acknowledged by Israeli enemy, which confirmed that two soldiers were injured in clashes east of Khan Younis, though it did not provide further details.

@E.Y.M