A video published by Hamas militants on social media shows a close assault on an Israeli tank recorded by a helmet-mounted camera. The outcome of the incident is unclear.

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In the video, the fighter from Hamas’s Al-Qassam military wing emerges from Hamas’s extensive underground tunnel network (stretching hundreds of miles and stocked with arms and supplies) to take up a concealed firing position near Al Zaytoun, by which a column of Israeli Merkava tanks is rolling.

Once the tanks have passed, the fighter sprints up to a tank and manually places a shaped-charge armor-piercing grenade on its side hull. The hanging steel balls and chains used to protect the vulnerable area between the rear turret and hull from rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) is clearly visible.

The fighter scurries back to his firing position, and a blast can be heard behind him. He then turns around and discharges a Hamas-built 105-millimeter Yassin RPG at the Israeli tanks. The flash as the RPG’s shaped-charge warhead detonates is briefly visible.