IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi with the director of Israel’s Shin Bet security Ronen Bar (Photo: IDF)
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi and the director of Israel’s Shin Bet security Ronen Bar visited the Hamas tunnel network under Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Friday. Israel Defense Forces think that Yahya Sinwar, the chief of Hamas in Gaza, is concealing in Khan Younis, together with other Hamas leaders, according to a declaration on Saturday.
Halevi and Bar were accompanied by the head of the IDF Southern Command, Maj.-Gen. Yaron Finkelman, Military Intelligence Directorate head Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva and the leader of the 98th Division, Brig.-Gen. Dan Goldfus.
“You have an excellent benefit over those who battle versus you. There is no location throughout the Gaza Strip where there is a force at your level,” Halevi informed the soldiers coming from the 7 IDF brigades stationed in Khan Younis.
Israeli forces damaged a weapons storage center consisting of lots of Kalashnikov rifles, explosive gadgets, RPGs, and more than 100 ammo cartridges in Khan Younis, the IDF revealed. Lots of terrorists were likewise gotten rid of in southern Gaza on Friday and a number of tunnel shafts were exposed and destroyed.
On Saturday, IDF Spokesman Brig-Gen. Daniel Hagari revealed a brand-new image of Mohammed Deif, the Hamas military chief who apparently prepared Hamas’ gruesome Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli border neighborhoods together with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
An image of Deif was discovered on a computer system that was taken in Gaza and revealed the terrorist leader holding a plastic cup of juice and a stack of American dollars. He appeared to be in much better condition than what was reported, regardless of the IDF’s several efforts at removing him.
According to current intelligence details, Deif is operating well and just has a small limp and damage to his eye. Israel has actually downloaded more than 70 million intelligence files from computer systems taken in Gaza.
Hagari likewise stated the IDF had actually beat Hamas’ military operations in northern Gaza.
“Hamas’s military structure in the northern Gaza Strip has actually been totally taken apart,” Hagari stated, including that the IDF had actually taken countless weapons and countless files. The IDF has actually removed roughly 8,000 terrorists in the northern location, according to the IDF and the focus is now turned to other parts of the Gaza Strip.
“We are now concentrated on taking apart Hamas in the center of and south of the (Gaza) strip,” Hagari stated throughout an online instruction, where he talked about the IDF’s leading objectives in Gaza, that include getting rid of all Hamas leaders, combating the terrorist operatives with IDF ground soldiers supported from the air, finding and damaging rockets, together with their production websites, and ruining the underground facilities. According to Hagari, 40,000 rockets have actually been damaged given that the start of the war.
“The killing of the leaders made it tough for the terrorists to eliminate,” Hagari stated. “The battle versus terrorism is intricate, and it exacts heavy rates. We gain from every event and attempt to minimize the variety of casualties. We saved numerous injured, thanks to which their lives were conserved.”