The IDF announced Thursday morning that fighters from the Nahal Brigade completed an operation to take over Outpost 17, a military stronghold of the Hamas terrorist organization in western Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.
During the takeover of the outpost, soldiers fought against terrorists from Hamas and PIJ who were in the outpost, both above ground and in tunnels in the area.
After 10 hours of fighting, during which they eliminated terrorists, captured weapons, and uncovered terror tunnels, including a shaft located near a kindergarten leading to “an extensive underground route”, the soldiers finally took control of the stronghold.
The Nahal soldiers also collected significant battle plans in the outpost.
In an audio recording, a commander can be heard stating, “We are waiting here, the Yahalom force has joined us, and we have already found the third shaft,” referring to a tunnel shaft. “Right now, we're starting to investigate the three shafts.”
The commander then says, “In my estimation, there is a weapons workshop underground.”
The IDF did not report any casualties from the fighting yet. Usually, publication of names of soldiers killed is delayed until the IDF has contacted the families of the fallen soldiers.
The IDF published the name of another soldier who fell in combat recently: Staff Sgt. Eliahou Benjamin Elmakayes, 29, from Jerusalem, an engineering soldier in Battalion 8219 of the 551st Brigade. He is the 35th IDF casualty since the beginning of the ground invasion.
Later Thursday morning, the IDF announced the killing of Ibrahim Abu-Maghsib, Head of Hamas’ Anti-Tank Missile Unit in the Central Camps Brigade, in an IAF airstrike. Maghsib directed and carried out numerous anti-tank missile launches directed at Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.
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