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IDF finds rocket launcher aimed at Israel in Yellow Line area

Kfir Brigade forces discovered an eight-tube launcher with four rockets during ceasefire operations, along with rifles, grenades and explosives.

Kfir Brigade troops recently discovered this rocket launcher near the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip.
Kfir Brigade troops recently discovered this rocket launcher near the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip, in a photo released on Nov. 20, 2025. Credit: IDF.

Infantrymen from the IDF’s Kfir Brigade discovered an eight-tube rocket launcher loaded with four rockets and aimed toward Israeli territory during operations near the Yellow Line area in Gaza, the military said on Thursday.

The troops located the launcher during area-clearing activities conducted in accordance with the ceasefire agreement.

The Yellow Line demarcates the areas of Gaza currently under Israeli military control per the terms of last month’s U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Jerusalem and the Hamas terrorist organization.

In a separate operation, brigade forces uncovered additional weapons including Kalashnikov rifles, fragmentation grenades, explosives, ammunition magazines and military uniforms, the military said.

The Kfir Brigade has been tasked with defending the Yellow Line area and dismantling infrastructure used by terrorist organizations to attack Israeli soldiers and civilians, according to the statement.

Troops under the IDF Southern Command will continue clearing operations to remove immediate threats and destroy terrorist infrastructure that could endanger military personnel, residents of the northwestern Negev and other Israeli citizens, the army said.

Hamas has consistently violated the truce since it went into effect on Oct. 10, including several terrorists firing on Israeli troops in the Khan Yunis area on Wednesday, prompting Israeli retaliatory strikes against Hamas terrorists that killed at least two senior officers.

The IDF eliminated two Palestinian terrorists on Tuesday after they breached the ceasefire line by attempting to cross into IDF-controlled territory in the Gaza Strip.

IDF reports Hamas infrastructure in Gaza’s Beit Hanoun

The IDF on Thursday released an animated intelligence briefing detailing what it described as extensive Hamas military infrastructure in Beit Hanoun, a city in the northeastern Gaza Strip.

The army demonstrated, using Hamas’s own captured video and IDF documentation, how the area contained a tunnel network beneath civilian homes, along with thousands of above-ground structures used for weapons storage, firing positions and command centers.

It also showed armed terrorists operating from an elementary school that had a tunnel shaft beneath it.

Troops “neutralized terrorist infrastructure” that posed a threat to Israeli civilians, the IDF said.

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