The Israeli Protection Forces IDF destroyed Hamas’ underground headquarters in northern Gaza, fought terrorists inside two United Nations faculties, and secured a whole bunch of grenades, RPG projectiles, and explosives. Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, who’s in hiding, claimed Hamas is “crushing” the IDF and rejected an Egyptian peace proposal.
The Israeli Protection Forces IDF launched footage on Dec. 25. displaying an RPG-wielding terrorist being eradicated by a drone strike.
In accordance with the IDF, because the Nahal Brigade set out for an offensive in opposition to Hamas’s Daraj-Tuffah battalion in Gaza Metropolis, troops noticed a Hamas operative with an RPG approaching them. The troops known as in an airstrike, killing the operative.
The IDF releases footage displaying a drone strike on an RPG-wielding Hamas operative in Gaza Metropolis in the present day.
In accordance with the IDF, because the Nahal Brigade set out for an offensive in opposition to Hamas’s Daraj-Tuffah battalion in Gaza Metropolis, troops noticed a Hamas operative with an RPG… pic.twitter.com/r6SDcslH7a
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) December 25, 2023
The IDF introduced the completion of a “large-scale operation to dismantle the northern underground headquarters of Hamas in Gaza” on Sunday night time, JNS reports.
Troops retrieved the our bodies of 5 hostages earlier this month after discovering the subterranean tunnel community throughout actions in Jabalia, the biggest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps, JNS wrote. After taking up the camp after intense combating, killing many terrorists, and discovering a whole bunch of weapons, the IDF uncovered a large tunnel community serving because the underground headquarters of Hamas, which included two ranges—the primary practically 33 toes deep and the second even deeper. The tunnel community included many branches and was used to wage struggle and conceal the actions of Hamas terrorists.
Weapons, infrastructure for the manufacturing of weapons, and rooms for emergencies had been discovered. The tunnel community was related to a shaft that reached the home of Ahmed Ahandor, the commander of Hamas’s northern division within the Gaza Strip, who was killed by the IDF final month after serving within the submit for 18 years, JNS stories.
The tunnel community was hidden underneath a faculty and a hospital, in line with the IDF. “At the end of the mission, the forces destroyed the underground headquarters. The destruction of the headquarters in Jabalia is part of the effort to deal with Hamas’s tunnel infrastructure and harm its senior commanders and strategic capabilities. This effort continues all the time and is now also being carried out in Khan Yunis and the south of the Gaza Strip,” the IDF stated.
🔴WATCH: IDF troopers uncovered Hamas’ northern headquarters.
Dozens of meters deep, the underground headquarters was made up of two ranges, with an intricate tunnel community—used for guiding fight and the motion of terrorists. This community was related to a shaft resulting in… pic.twitter.com/rioSighGz0
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) December 24, 2023
Israeli forces additionally killed terrorists hiding in a faculty within the Sheikh Radwan space of Gaza Metropolis, the place the IDF secured a whole bunch of weapons, together with grenades, RPG projectiles, and explosives. Dozens of terrorists had been captured and transferred to Israel for additional interrogation by Shin Wager.
במקום כיתות, ספרי לימוד ותלמידים – כלי נשק, מטענים ומחבלים: בפשיטה ממוקדת של כוחות צוות הקרב החטיבתי של 401 ולוחמי שייטת 13 על בתי ספר בשכונת שייח’ רדואן נמצאו מאות כלי נשק ואמצעי לחימה וחוסלו מחבלים שהסתתרו במבנה.
לכל הפרטים: https://t.co/98KbkviePN pic.twitter.com/uMviJ6ZyfV
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) December 24, 2023
“We raided a school where a large population was hiding,” stated a deputy firm commander of the elite Shayetet 13 commando unit. “After the evacuation of the population, many weapons were found in the compound that were hidden among the citizens’ equipment.”
Israeli troopers fought Hamas terrorists working inside two United Nations faculties within the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.
The army stated the terrorists had been hiding contained in the Al Rafaa and Zavaha faculties within the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza Metropolis.
Textbooks, college students, lecture rooms, and explosives—one in every of these isn’t like the opposite…
After evacuating the world, our troops operated to get rid of terrorists, and find weapons—together with grenades, RPG missiles, explosives, and numerous media gadgets—inside the varsity compound. pic.twitter.com/Otkh70X6lN
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) December 24, 2023
“This is further evidence that Hamas uses the civilian population and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip as human shields for its terrorist activity,” the IDF said.
מתוך בית ספר: מחבל יורה לעבר לוחמי צוות הקרב של חטיבת הנח”ל ומחוסל במקום
לוחמי צוות הקרב של חטיבת הנח”ל באוגדה 162 פשטו על מרחב בתי הספר “אל רפאא” ו-“צבחה” בדרג’ תופאח שבצפון הרצועה, בעקבות מידע על מחבלי חמאס המסתתרים בתוך בתי הספר>> pic.twitter.com/SZXrVZbZmh
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) December 25, 2023
IDF Nahal Brigade troops positioned dozens of explosive gadgets hidden inside UNRWA baggage, together with AK-47-style rifles and 15 suicide belts.
מחבלים רבים שהסתתרו בתוך בתי הספר, זוהו כפעילי חמאס וג’יהאד אסלאמי והובאו לחקירה. חלק מהמחבלים שהובאו לחקירה לקחו חלק במתקפת ה-7 באוקטובר pic.twitter.com/VtmNtbHajQ
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) December 25, 2023
The IDF stated that a few of the terrorists within the faculties had been members of Islamic Jihad. A number of had participated within the Oct. 7 Hamas bloodbath of 1,200 folks.
The usage of the sacks belonging to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency(UNRWA) raises additional questions on its position in supporting Hamas, JNS wrote.
Earlier this month, Israeli troopers found greater than 100 rockets hidden in UNRWA packing containers inside a house in northern Gaza, in line with the IDF. In October, UNRWA reported that gasoline and humanitarian support was stolen from one in every of its compounds by the Hamas-run Ministry of Well being. A launched hostage instructed Israeli Channel 13 reporter Almog Boker that he was held captive by a UNRWA instructor.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected an Egyptian proposal to relinquish energy in Gaza in return for a everlasting ceasefire, two Egyptian safety sources instructed Reuters on Monday. Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, added: “There can be no negotiations without a complete stop to the aggression.”
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officers. Egypt is the house of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the mother or father group of Hamas.
The US offers Egypt $1.3 billion in annual army support regardless of their ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. In September, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken overruled congressional restrictions on U.S. army support to Egypt, approving one other $235 million for Cairo.
Since 1978, the USA has supplied Egypt with greater than $50 billion in army support and $30 billion in financial help, in line with the State Division.
In his first public message for the reason that barbaric Oct. 7 bloodbath, delusional Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar claimed from his hiding place that Hamas is “crushing” the Israeli military.
In his first public message for the reason that massacres of October 7, Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar on Monday remained defiant whereas grossly inflating the fear group’s achievements within the struggle, Instances of Israel wrote. Sinwar is in hiding, presumably someplace in his hometown of Khan Yunis.
Hamas is going through a “fierce, violent and unprecedented battle” in opposition to Israel, Sinwar acknowledged. However he additionally claimed the fear group was on its approach to “crushing” the Israel Protection Forces and said Hamas won’t undergo “the occupation’s conditions.”
Sinwar falsely claimed that the al-Qassam Brigades, the army wing of Hamas, had “targeted” over 5,000 Israeli troopers and officers, and killed about third of them — that’s, over 1,500, Times of Israel stories.
The precise determine of IDF deaths is one-tenth of what the fear chief alleged, in line with the Instances of Israel: 156 troopers have up to now been killed within the floor operation in Gaza, and over 300 members of the safety forces had been killed in Hamas’ October 7 assault.
Sinwar claimed 3,500 Israeli troops had been wounded or disabled, whereas the actual determine is lower than 200, in line with the IDF.
Sinwar additionally claimed Hamas had destroyed 750 Israeli army automobiles. Only a few IDF automobiles have been severely broken, the Instances of Israel writes.
Israel has killed not less than 7,000 Hamas terrorists up to now, Israeli Nationwide Safety Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi stated on Dec. 9.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops within the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, stating the struggle in opposition to Hamas isn’t near completed.
“We are not stopping; we are continuing to battle. We will be intensifying the fighting in the coming days, as this will be a long war. It is not close to over,” Netanyahu instructed troopers.
“We are proud of you and trust you. We see the determination and the desire to continue until the end,” he added.
Netanyahu was joined by Israel Protection Forces Deputy Chief of Workers Maj. Gen. Amir Baram and different high-ranking officers.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
To our Christian buddies around the globe, Merry Christmas.
Christmas is meant to be a time of excellent will to all males & peace on Earth. Properly, we do not have peace on Earth, not in our half anyway & we actually do not see good will to all males. pic.twitter.com/dBs5JKXq9Z
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 24, 2023
In his Christmas message Sunday night time, Netanyahu stated the Jewish state was confronting “monsters who murdered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, who raped and beheaded women, who burned babies alive, who took babies, hostages.”
“This is a battle not only of Israel against these barbarians, it’s a battle of civilization against barbarism,” Netanyahu stated.
On Sunday, Netanyahu stated he had instructed U.S. President Joe Biden the struggle would proceed for “however long it takes.”
“I appreciate the steadfast U.S. position—which supports our war effort—in the U.N. Security Council. I told President Biden yesterday that we will fight until absolute victory,” stated Netanyahu.
“Our decisions in the war are based on our operational considerations, and I will not expand further. They are not dictated by external pressure. The decision on how to use our forces is an independent decision of the IDF and nobody else,” stated Netanyahu.
The IDF takes important measures to decrease hurt to harmless civilians. This is a breakdown of how we do it: pic.twitter.com/AWvzBeZMph
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) December 25, 2023
