The Israel Defense Forces attacked approximately 250 terrorist targets across the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, including weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launchers, terrorist cells, sniper posts, booby-trapped structures and tunnel networks, the military said on Saturday.
Over the past day, IDF troops conducted operations in the Beit Hanoun area of northeastern Gaza, killing several terrorists and dismantling weapons caches and underground facilities.
IDF soldiers are also active in the Shejaiya and Zeitoun neighborhoods of Gaza City, where they located and dismantled explosives and observation posts used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to stage ambushes against Israeli forces, the military added.
Five Southern Command divisions are operating in the Palestinian enclave, dismantling terrorist infrastructure above and below ground.
The military also reported that six senior members of Hamas’s naval commando unit have been killed in recent months. The operatives were involved in planning attacks at sea against Israeli civilians and security forces during the ongoing Swords of Iron war. Several also played roles in organizing the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
Israeli forces operating in Khan Yunis dismantled terrorist infrastructure and eliminated an armed cell in recent days, the IDF said on Thursday.
The 188th “Barak” Armored Brigade, operating under the 36th “Rage” Armored Division, worked with the Israeli Air Force to target terrorists and uncover tunnels, including a route nearly a kilometer long.
Separately, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) confirmed the targeted killing of Fadl Abu al-Ata, commander of Islamic Jihad’s Shejaiya sector in Gaza City.
Abu al-Ata took part in the Oct. 7 invasion and was involved in coordinating attacks against Israeli forces throughout the war. Another senior operative, Hamed Kamel Abd al-Aziz Iyad, a specialist in explosives with the group’s Turukman Battalion, was also killed.
The IDF stressed its ongoing efforts to neutralize threats from Gaza and protect Israeli civilians, particularly those living near the border.
