2023-12-24 10:59:08
The Israeli Army reported this Sunday that in the last 24 hours it has attacked more than 200 “targets” in Hamas in the Gaza Strip, including a weapons warehouse inside a civilian compound, in addition to having “eliminated” several of the terrorists. The Israeli security forces – in operations that involve both the Army and the Shin Bet, the internal intelligence service – reported that They had arrested more than 200 terrorists, both from Hamas and Islamic Jihadin the last week and that these total almost 800 since the beginning of the fighting.
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“Explosive belts adapted for children, dozens of mortar shells, hundreds of grenades and intelligence documents were found inside the civilian complex, which was located adjacent to schools, a mosque and a medical clinic,” a military spokesman said of that warehouse. of weapons found in an unspecified location in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
The Army indicated that during that operation, Troops identified “several terrorists” who left a Hamas military compound used, among other things, as an observation center. “The forces conducted an airstrike on the complex and the terrorists were killed,” a military statement said.
In another operation in YabaliaAlso in the north, aviation and artillery troops killed seven more Hamas terrorists and destroyed four observation points. Furthermore, in a raid on the military command center of Khan Yunis, Hamas stronghold In the southern Strip, soldiers located numerous weapons, including dozens of grenades and explosives.
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza now exceeds 150
Thirteen soldiers died in the Gaza Strip in the last 48 hoursamong the deadliest days in the Israeli ranks since the ground offensive began in the enclave, where the fighting has intensified in the last week. In total, 152 Israeli soldiers have died in combat in the enclave since the start of the ground offensive on October 27, surpassing the 119 who died in the 2006 Lebanon war, according to official Army figures.
The Israeli army plans another more selective approach to the offensive for January, with more specific operations and the withdrawal of part of its troops, with the aim of creating a security space for Israeli border towns.
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