The IDF announced on Tuesday that it discovered a Hamas weapons cache inside a warehouse next to a school in Khan Yunis during its continued operations in the Gaza Strip.
According to the announcement, counter-terrorism soldiers of the LOTAR unit have been conducting special operations in the heart of urban areas in Khan Yunis with the assistance of the 7th Brigade over the past few days.
After recieving intelligence gathered by the IDF, the soldiers entered a warehouse next to a school that originally served as a shelter for citizens, and discovered a weapons cache belonging to Hamas.
Weapons and explosives were found in civilians areas
The warehouse contained weapons, ammunition, grenades, and even ready-to-launch mortars and rocket heads.
The soldiers located another weapons cache in a nearby civilian neighborhood, also containing weapons, grenades, ammunition, and rockets, however, some of the munitions had been attempted to be hidden or disposed of, in URNWA bags or in holes dug in the ground.