Troopers of the IDF fifty fifth Paratroopers Reserve Brigade situated underground and destroyed a tunnel to a conflict room belonging to Hamas’ Nukhba operatives in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
WATCH as IDF troops uncover a terrorist tunnel shaft hidden inside a mosque in Gaza.
This can be a direct risk to each Israeli and Gazan civilians: pic.twitter.com/lQm1huQWbB
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) December 28, 2023
The tunnel and the conflict room had been used for the conduct of fight and the switch of weapons by the Nukhba operatives. The fifty fifth Para Brigade is busy destroying Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure and underground tunnels within the space of Bani Suheila. The troopers eradicated terrorists and situated a number of tunnel shafts and terrorist infrastructure that had been subsequently destroyed by fight engineering troopers.
The troopers additionally situated a tunnel shaft and a rocket launcher inside a mosque subsequent to a college. Within the mosque, a staging space was recognized, which included statement and fight posts that endangered the troopers. Areas used to retailer weapons had been additionally situated.
IDF infantry and armored forces from the fiftieth Battalion Battle Group, who’re working below the 460 Brigade Battle Group, raided orchards within the Gaza Strip, the place they discovered 5 tunnel shafts and a number of missile launch pits.
Whereas working within the orchards, the forces encountered a number of terrorists who launched RPGs and fired mild weapons at them. They confronted the terrorists and eradicated them with correct gunfire, Arutz Sheva writes. Through the assault, armored forces recognized two terrorists crawling with weapons towards the forces and eradicated them with a tank spherical. An anti-tank missile was fired on the forces however didn’t hit. The IDF recognized the supply of the fireplace and eradicated the terrorists.
#WATCH: IDF troopers engaged terrorists in orchards within the Gaza Strip. The forces found 5 tunnel shafts and a number of missile launch pits within the orchards. pic.twitter.com/rVPL8Vqo1p
— Israel Nationwide Information – Arutz Sheva (@ArutzSheva_En) December 27, 2023
Troopers from the IDF’s Brigade 7 working within the Khan Yunis space situated caches of weapons, eradicated many terrorists in clashes and ambushes, and directed plane to strike targets from the air during the last two weeks, Arutz Sheva reported.
Troopers from IDF Battalion 12 secured a mosque in a Hamas stronghold within the Khan Yunis space and recognized an expansive underground infrastructure within the mosque. Throughout raids on terror infrastructure, the troopers discovered weapons, instruction booklets, and extra.
In one of many rooms, an explosive was detonated, and pictures had been fired in the direction of the forces, who returned fireplace whereas evacuating their injured comrades”, Arutz Sheva writes. With the assistance of the IAF, the fighters eradicated extra terrorists who had been trying to flee the mosque. Tragically, Sergeant Maor Cohen Eisenkot and Workers Sergeant Jonatan Dean Jr Haim fell in fight. Could their reminiscence be a blesssing.
IDF troopers led by the 401st Brigade of the 162nd Division, in cooperation with Shaytet 13 naval commandos and the Yahalom fight engineers, situated and searched three operational tunnel shafts close to the Rantisi Hospital, Arutz Sheva writes.
Yahalom fight engineers searched the world, shafts and tunnels utilizing numerous means for mapping the tunnels’ topography and the connections between the shafts. This operation revealed the shafts are linked by an enormous underground community below the hospital, spanning a number of kilometers and resulting in strategic factors within the coronary heart of Gaza Metropolis. The tunnel in Rantisi is shut to a college and results in one other college within the space. The tunnel additionally served as a command and management heart for conducting fight within the northern Gaza Strip and for finishing up terrorist assaults.
The operational shaft situated in a ladies’ college within the space is about 20 meters deep and consists of an elevator and electrical infrastructure, Arutz Sheva writes. Following intelligence info directed by Unit 504 of the Intelligence Directorate, one other operational shaft was situated inside one of many hideout residences utilized by one of many commanders of Hamas’ naval unit within the Gaza Strip. Within the tunnels’ topography, junctions and blast doorways had been situated – designed to forestall IDF troopers from breaking in and to guard in opposition to harm to the tunnel infrastructure.
“The exposure of the shafts near the hospital and school once again demonstrates Hamas’ cynical use of the civilian population. Exposing Hamas’ use of the residents of the Gaza Strip, including refugees and children, as human shields,” the IDF acknowledged.
The IDF has collected over 65 million Hamas information and half one million paperwork, operational plans, and fight strategies, that are analyzed by the Doc and Technical Means Assortment Unit within the Intelligence Directorate (J2). Among the many paperwork discovered is a map of tunnel shafts seized by the 252nd Division within the residence of an organization commander in Hamas’ Beit Hanoun Battalion.
A key explaining the map was situated and picked up by the division on the residence of one other operative. With the arrival of the supplies to the analysis group, the vital hyperlink between the map and the important thing was created – making it doable to establish the tunnel shafts within the area, of which many tunnel shafts had been destroyed, Arutz Sheva writes.
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