Israeli troops in Gaza dismantled eight tunnel routes and killed dozens of terrorists, the military said on Sunday, as reservists from the 205th Brigade completed a two-month operation in the northern Strip.
The brigade, operating under the 252nd Division east of the Yellow Line, worked alongside the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit to locate and destroy tunnel infrastructure, including through drilling operations, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The Yellow Line demarcates areas held by the IDF from those under Hamas control under the terms of the U.S.-brokered Oct. 10, 2025, ceasefire.
The deployment marked the brigade’s sixth since the start of the war, following previous operations in southern Gaza and Southern Lebanon. Troops from the 14th Brigade are set to replace them in the area.
The IDF said forces under Southern Command remain deployed in accordance with the ceasefire framework and will continue operations to eliminate immediate threats.
Israeli troops killed several Hamas terrorists in separate incidents near the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip over the past few days, according to the military.
On Sunday, forces killed a member of Hamas’s Beit Lahia Battalion who, according to IDF intelligence, had launched rockets at Israeli territory during the war. The suspect was identified moving toward troops and was deemed an “immediate threat,” the military said.
In a separate incident earlier Monday, Israeli forces killed another terrorist who approached troops in the Yellow Line area of the southern Gaza Strip.
Additionally, ground troops killed a Palestinian terrorist during operations in southern Gaza on Sunday after he advanced toward soldiers, also posing an immediate threat, the IDF said.
On Saturday, ground troops killed at least three terrorists in southern Gaza after they crossed the ceasefire line and approached Israeli soldiers, the military said.
The truce ended the two-year war that began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas, other Palestinian terrorist groups and civilians from Gaza invaded the northwestern Negev.
