The IDF raided a Hamas military headquarters base belonging to the terrorist group’s military intelligence chief in Khan Yunis on Saturday.
The raid was carried out by the IDF’s 7th Brigade and the Givati Brigade.
The Hamas military intelligence commander is responsible for all the intelligence operations of the terrorist organization in the area.
During the raid, Israeli forces also uncovered the location of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad headquarters.
Video documentation of the raid by the IDF's 7th Brigade and the Givati Brigade in Khan Yunis can be seen below:
Fallen Soldiers
The IDF published the names of three more soldiers killed in action in the Gaza Strip, two over the weekend.
Staff-Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Constantine Sushko, 30 years old, from Tel Aviv, fell in battle on Saturday in central Gaza. Sushko was a soldier in the Golani Brigade’s 7086 Combat Engineering Battalion. Another reservist from the same battalion was seriously wounded in the incident.
Capt. Harel Ittah, 22 years old, from Netanya, died on Saturday of wounds sustained on December 22 in a battle in the southern Gaza Strip. Ittah also served in the Givati Brigade.
On Friday, the IDF named Capt. (res.) Harel Sharvit as having fallen in battle in Gaza. Sharvit, 33, was from Kochav Ya’acov and served as a combat officer in the 551st Brigade’s 7008th Battalion.
Over the weekend, the Givati Brigade also raided much Hamas infrastructure in the area and eliminated terrorists who were preparing to attack Israeli forces through sniper and tank fire.
The brigade carried out several attacks using aerial vehicles in which armed terrorists were killed and targets such as a weapons production site and another stronghold for the terror organization were also destroyed.
As a preliminary step before the entry of ground forces, the IDF’s 98th Division, in cooperation with the IAF, also carried out about 50 airstrikes on a variety of targets which included underground targets and terrorist infrastructure.
Also, the IDF’s 14th Reserve Brigade combat team located and destroyed one of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s hiding places in recent weeks, an apartment located in Gaza City, the military announced on Friday evening.
An investigation revealed that a tunnel shaft located in the apartment’s basement was used by the terror organization.
The apartment is part of a long and branching network of tunnels constructed by Hamas, where senior members moved and operated, an IDF spokesperson said.
Tzvi Joffre contributed to this report.