File photo shows fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades, which is the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas

Beirut, May 4 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has been targeting Israeli military positions both in Gaza and northern occupied territories.  The military wing of Hamas said on Friday it attacked the Israeli regime’s troops in the Sheikh Ijlin neighborhood in Gaza City in the north of the besieged strip.

The al-Qassam Brigades said it carried out the operation in collaboration with the military wing of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement.

Hamas said it carried out a rocket attack on a gathering of Israeli troops on the key Netzarim corridor, which Israel is building through the middle of the Gaza Strip.  The al-Qassam Brigades affirmed it also fired a barrage of rockets from southern Lebanon at Israeli barracks near the border.

Israel unleashed its U.S.-backed Gaza onslaught on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out a surprise operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 34,622 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 77,816 others.

The United Nations said the destruction caused by Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip is unseen since the Second World War, estimating that the reconstruction of the Palestinian territory could take 80 years and cost up to $40 billion.

Speaking at a press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Program’s (UNDP) regional office for the Arab states, added that the Israeli aggression has completely or partially destroyed 72 percent of all residential buildings in Gaza.