The IDF on Tuesday announced the capture of a major Hamas stronghold in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, following fierce battles that saw special forces engage in intense combat with Hamas terrorist within an extensive tunnel network.
The IDF described the stronghold, known as the Eastern Outpost, as comprising 37 buildings situated amid civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, a school, and a hospital. A mosque within the complex was reportedly used as a meeting point for Hamas operatives. The IDF said the stronghold was used by Hamas’s intelligence division and other units to coordinate activities across the Gaza Strip.
During the raid, the 401st Armored Brigade focused on the stronghold’s main building, uncovering a 20-meter deep bunker. This facility, according to the IDF, served as a command center for Hamas, equipped with rest areas for commanders and stocked with weapons and other equipment.
The IDF further detailed the discovery of a sophisticated tunnel system by troops of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion. The system included five shafts, each extending dozens of meters deep, all interconnected and linked to the main underground bunker.
A critical phase of the operation involved forces from the Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit, who entered the tunnels and engaged in combat with Hamas gunmen. “At the end of the fighting, all the terrorists were eliminated,” the IDF said.
The tunnel network was subsequently destroyed by the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion and the elite Yahalom unit.
In a separate but related encounter, the 401st Brigade’s 52nd Battalion engaged Hamas gunmen in another building within the Eastern Outpost, which escalated into a wider battle across the stronghold.
The IDF confirmed that all Hamas operatives involved were neutralized in the battle. However, the operation also resulted in the loss of three Israeli soldiers from the Shaked Battalion: Lt. Yaron Eliezer Chitiz, Staff Sgt. Itay Buton, and Staff Sgt. Efraim Jackman.
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And Israel is guilty of war crimes!
And in the U.S. there are pro hamas demonstrations. This is what they support.
Such a shame that IDF goes in first. The infamous BBC will probably side with a Hamas spokesman who will say that Israel set it all up to look like it was done by Hamas. Maybe it would be a good idea to send in BBC reporters first with devices that transmit what they discover. If they then get blown up, it would at least save the life of a useful dog from the dog unit.
@Refoel Moishe,
that might be a good idea to clarify what really happens.
But something tells me that these soldiers wouldn’t want that to happen, the picture might be very different (not necessarily intrinsically better, but different), like say they won’t find Lego block bags with grenades but they would still find the grenades.
Now this is not something the just-as-bad-as-the-bbc liars (meaning the gadol-hamachtiyo-yoser-min-hahorgo zionist esav demons) would want the world to see.
they are to busy standing up again and again in between their humpty-dumpty falls in their propaganda mission.
Could go in sync with Bidens age….