Israeli troops within the southern Gaza Strip late Sunday found a weapons cache inside a college constructing, the place Hamas militants had been storing mortars, hand grenades, explosives and different weapons, Israel Defense Forces officers mentioned.
The IDF and the Israeli safety company Shin Guess mentioned Monday that troopers close to Rafah found and destroyed a tunnel utilized by Hamas militants that was a number of hundred yards lengthy and greater than 65 ft beneath the floor.
“The tunnel route was used as a gathering place for Hamas terrorists and linked a lot of tunnel routes within the space,” IDF officers mentioned Monday on their Telegram messaging website.
IDF troopers in northern Gaza uncovered an ambush website the place a lot of Hamas fighters had been ready for them, officers mentioned.
“In coordination with the [Israeli Air Force], the terrorists had been eradicated,” they mentioned.
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the IDF’s chief of the Normal Employees, spoke Sunday with the mother and father of Edan Alexander, an IDF soldier being held hostage by Hamas.
“We’re doing every thing attainable to carry them again. I see this as a high precedence for myself and the IDF,” Gen. Zamir mentioned in a press release. “I’m the commander of those troopers, and that is on my thoughts in each choice I take.”
