Posted on 11/10/2023 5:03:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Israeli forces captured a Hamas stronghold following a 10-hour firefight as troops uncovered the terror group’s tunnel shafts, one of which Israeli officials say was located near a kindergarten.
Troops from the 933rd Nahal Infantry Brigade, one of the five infantry brigades of the IDF, completed the takeover of Outpost 17 in northern Gaza, which Hamas previously ran. The troops battled Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad above and below ground, killing dozens of terrorists.
According to a Thursday IDF statement, Ibrahim Abu-Maghsib, the head of Hamas’ Anti Tank Missile Unit in the Central Camps Brigade, died during the attack from an IDF fighter jet. The attack was carried out as a result of intelligence gathered by the Israel Securities Authority and the IDF.
Israel has been at war with Hamas for over a month following the terror group’s Oct. 7 attack against civilian communities in southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of at least 1,400 people. Around 5,000 were wounded, and over 240 people were taken captive as hostages.
“Since the beginning of the war, about 9,500 rockets and dozens of aircraft have been launched towards Israel,” the IDF statement reads. “About 12% of the total launches towards Israel landed in the Gaza Strip and about 900 launches were carried out from civilian sites such as mosques, schools, hospitals and cultural centers.”
Late last month, Israel commenced a ground operation in Gaza to eradicate Hamas, an Islamic terror organization that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, and secure the release of hostages taken by Hamas.
Since Israel’s forces entered Gaza, the IDF has discovered over 130 entrances to tunnels used by the terror group.
In a Thursday social media post, the IDF provided further details about the outpost takeover, sharing that Israeli troops seized enemy weapons and uncovered tunnel shafts. One shaft was located near a kindergarten that reportedly led to an “extensive underground route.”
According to a follow-up IDF post shared on the same day, Nahal troops also recovered “significant operative materials” detailing Hamas’ operational plans.
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As The Christian Post previously reported, the IDF has shared photos and videos amid its ground operation in Gaza that show Hamas rocket launching sites in children’s playgrounds and other residential areas.
In an IDF video shared earlier this month, the soldiers are seen walking through a building with colorful paintings of children dressed in scout uniforms on the walls. The camera then zoomed in on the rocket launchers inside of the building, which one soldier noted appeared to be aimed north, toward the city of Ashkelon in Israel.
“This is what we are finding in Gaza,” one of the IDF soldiers in the video said. “A building where children play is a Hamas rocket launching site. You have to see it to believe it.”
Another video shared by the IDF showed soldiers in Beit Hanoun, a city on the northeast edge of the Gaza Strip, pointing out the presence of rocket launcher barrels within a residential neighborhood.
“What you can see here is a group of four launching barrels for rockets [being fired] towards Israel,” a soldier said in the video.
The IDF soldier said the rocket launching barrels were within what he described as the “heart” of a residential neighborhood, and the launching barrels were only a few feet away from a children’s swimming pool and multiple buildings.
Another IDF post features photos and videos of rocket launchers within a children’s playground and other civilian areas. In its post, the IDF cited the video and pictures as evidence that Hamas uses civilians “as a human shield for the benefit of terrorist needs.”
Weapons of war in a kindergarten? Sadly, just typical for these animals.
Such execrable scum needs totally exterminated.
I wish the IDF all the luck possible in this world.
The problem is that the young Americans are woke. They thunk that Hamas attacks on 10/7 are justified due to the "occipation" by Israel. If you did not witness the horrific attacks on 9/11, basically you see nothing wrong with Hamas.
100% agree. Also, no mainstream media outlet will carry this story, so it is preaching to the choir.
A lot of those tunnels are probably connected so why not pump in carbon monoxide into each opening they find?
The Jews can’t really be gassing people, can they?
Israel ought to gather up all of this evidence and call a press conference with Trump in attendance. Big news, guaranteed big audience. Make the world see all of it.
Agreed, and they completely swallowed the fake news about the hospital being attacked by Israel, even though in a very short time it was proven to be completely due to a Hamas rocket.
ALL are actual war crimes. But they will not be held to account.
“The Jews can’t really be gassing people, can they?”
No, dumbA$$, they would be killing murderous terrorists.
A gew packs of Giant Gopher Gassers would do the trick.
Check every school...every hospital....every mosque...
My grammar school in the 1960s was across the street from a Nike missle site,
The Nike missile was an anti-aircraft missle. It was defended your school.
Nobody was launching attacks with Nike missiles.
How about the rodentator https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2cTz9cP9W0M
That’s a great device, especially given that the Israelis are dealing with rodents of all sorts.
No, dumbA$$, they would be killing murderous terrorists.
And the soldiers would just be following orders as they turned on the gas?
Seig Heil, Bruder!
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