Israeli forces were also attacking the Jabalia refugee camp, Beit Lahia, Tel al-Za’tar and the outskirts of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Strip early Wednesday, according to Palestinian reports.
Ground forces also continued to locate weapons, tunnel shafts, explosives and terror infrastructure. Israel Defense Forces soldiers struck an armed terrorist cell operating adjacent to a school in the northern Gaza Strip, and destroyed a tunnel shaft in the area.
According to Arab reports, IDF armored bulldozers were operating in eastern Khan Yunis. The bulldozers are directed to tear up roads to uncover IEDs and level buildings to expose Hamas terror tunnel shafts so as to provide clearance for ground troops.
A red alert siren sounded in Kibbutz Re’im near the Gaza border on Wednesday, close to where Hamas terrorists slaughtered hundreds of Israeli civilians at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7.
The IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Wednesday published a photo of senior Hamas commanders gathered in a tunnel under Gaza, many of whom were killed in an Israeli strike.
Senior members of Hamas’s Northern Gaza Brigade are pictured. Five of them were eliminated in an Israeli airstrike as they hid in a tunnel located under civilian residences and near the Indonesian Hospital, according to the IDF.
Israeli forces eliminated the brigade’s commander, Ahmed al-Ghandoor, the deputy brigade commander, Wael Rajab, and other senior operatives, including the commander of the brigade’s support battalion, the head of the technical and operational support department and the observation officer for the northern Gaza Strip.
The IDF also published a video of Rajab walking through a Gaza tunnel.
Ghandoor was responsible for the direction and management of all Hamas terrorist activities in the northern area of the Gaza Strip, according to the military.
The Northern Brigade’s ability to function had been “significantly damaged” by the death of the commanders, the IDF said.
At the same time these Hamas commanders were eliminated, the commanders of the Beit Lahia Battalion and the central Jabalia Battalion were also killed.
In addition, IDF forces killed four battalion commanders from Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade, its largest. Among them were the commanders of the Sabra Battalion, Shati Battalion, Darj Tafah Battalion and Shejaiya battalion.
The IDF reported that the Sabra Battalion had been “significantly damaged.”
Israeli forces also took control of the Shati Battalion central strongholds. That battalion is responsible for the central headquarters of Hamas, including at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The heads of its anti-tank, air and naval formations were also eliminated, according to the IDF.
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