Oct. 7 terrorist, Hamas deputy battalion chief killed in Gaza
Israel’s armed forces have begun implementing the Aug. 8 decision to occupy Gaza City, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Israel’s armed forces have begun implementing the Aug. 8 decision to occupy Gaza City, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
IDF troops spent three months in southern Khan Yunis eliminating dozens of terrorists—including October 7 attackers—destroying tunnels and weapons caches, dismantling Hamas infrastructure, and securing the ‘Magen Oz’ axis.
In late October 2023, the Arab media division of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit revealed Abu Obeida’s identity, naming him as Hudhayfah Kahlot.
Lubliner was the 114th soldier to fall from the Golani Brigade, which has suffered the most losses in the war.
Formed 20 years ago as a classified offshoot of the Maglan brigade, Unit 6 specializes in ‘exposure-strike’ operations, identifying and neutralizing high-value targets deep in hostile territory.
Military officials said the infiltration was part of Hamas’s wider attack strategy, noting daylight assaults are meant to catch forces off guard.
The key to victory, an expert argued, is to target Hamas’s greatest strategic vulnerability: its reliance on the Gazan population as a human shield.
In some battalions, women constitute over 60% of personnel, and some even serve aboard Israel’s main battle tanks, the Merkava.
Amedi was seriously injured while serving as a reservist in the IDF’s Combat Engineering Corps in Gaza.
Despite nearly two years of IDF presence in Gaza, forces are still uncovering sprawling tunnel networks hidden beneath wide areas—stocked with weapons, food, and supplies.
The IDF agreed—on one condition: he had to pass all combat training tests.
During a March ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Katz made a near-identical threat, warning the terror group to respect the terms of the truce.
Gaza temperatures reached 36°C, exacerbating the challenges of combat operations in Operation Gideon’s Chariots.
The UN’s Jens Laerke responded, saying, ‘Despite our repeated requests, Israel has not allowed the UN to be present at the crossings, which are militarized areas.’
The IDF eliminated around 400 terrorists, destroyed hundreds of Hamas terror sites, and recently uncovered and demolished a 500-meter tunnel in Beit Hanoun.
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 454.
The new tech enables combat engineers to map subterranean threats without physically entering the area.
The airstrikes also destroyed dozens of booby-trapped buildings, causing huge explosions heard as far south as Sderot and the plains region, as hidden IEDs detonated in secondary blasts as well.
The IDF’s 401st Brigade is intensifying its assault in Jabaliya, destroying terror hubs, seizing weapons, eliminating dozens of terrorists, and demolishing nearly 3 kilometers of underground tunnels buried 20 meters deep.
The IDF believes that terrorists have taken full advantage of the situation and that there is such a strong Hamas military presence in the area that it will take two months of hard work by at least two brigades to clear it of the terrorists.
