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Hamas warns Israel of ‘significant price’ before showing off seized Israeli submachine gun

A Hamas fighter carries a “Scorpion Evo 3” submachine gun, which the group’s fighters had seized from an Israeli trooper amid a successful ambush, during the handover of a Zionist captive in the Gaza Strip on January 30, 2025.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned the Israeli regime about the “significant price” of the latter’s keeping up its aggression against Palestinians before showing off a submachine gun seized from one of the regime’s forces during a successful ambush.

"Every day that the enemy spends in its aggression against our people and our family will incur a heavy and significant price [for it],” Abu Obeida, spokesman for the group’s military arm, al-Qassam Brigades, said on Thursday.

“We will continue to make the enemy pay this price,” he added, addressing joyful crowds in Gaza.

Later, Hamas revealed it is having seized the “Scorpion EVO 3” firearm, with one of its fighters’ toting the weapon during the group’s earlier handover of a Zionist captive.

The movement identified the weapon as one belonging to one of the regime’s "Special Forces" units, which was seized after a Zionist force was lured into an ambush inside one of the resistance’s tunnels.

The ambush led to the killing, wounding, and capture of a number of occupation forces, it noted.

The firearm is a 9-mm carbine-manufactured select-fire submachine gun.

Also on Thursday, Palestinian resistance fighters in the city of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, where Tel Aviv has notably ramped up its deadly aggression, announced killing an Israeli trooper and wounding five others during a retaliatory operation against Israeli forces.

The Israeli military, itself, identified the fatality as seargeant Liam Hazi, 20, of the Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit from Rosh Haayin city.

Confirming that one of the injured was in serious condition, the military said that its troopers had exchanged fire with at least two armed Palestinian men after entering a building at the Jenin Refugee Camp. The gunmen managed to flee the scene.

The developments came after al-Qassam announced the martyrdom of several of its military council leaders in the battle against the Israeli regime’s 15-month-long war of genocide against Gaza.

It named some of the victims as Mohammad 'Abu Khaled' Deif, al-Qassam's former commander, who used to be on Tel Aviv’s kill list for long, deputy military commander Marwan Issa, commander of weapons and combat services, Ghazi Abu Tama’a, commander of manpower and head of supplies unit, Raed Thabet, and commander of the Khan Younis Brigade in southern Gaza, Rafeh Salama.

Gaza’s resistance groups have vowed that martyrdom of their fighters and leaders would not only fail to deter their resolve but would further invigorate and motivate them towards stepping up their anti-Israeli struggle.


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