ISREAL’S REPORTS

IDF: IDF and ISA forces eliminated a terrorist cell in central Gaza; the terrorist responsible for investigations in Hamas' Internal Security Department was eliminated in the area of Beit Hanoun

This week, following operational information gathered by the Southern Command, an IAF aircraft struck and eliminated the terrorist Yussef Rafik Ahmed Shabat, responsible for investigations in Hamas' Internal Security Department in Beit Hanoun.

Shabat served as a security officer in Hamas' military intelligence wing of the Beit Hanoun Battalion, and his elimination significantly damages the terrorist organization's investigations department.

In addition, following precise intelligence information, the IDF and ISA directed an airstrike on a vehicle in which there were 10 terrorists.

On Wednesday, IAF fighter jets struck a mortar shell launcher in the area of Rimal from which a number of launches at IDF troops who were operating in the area were launched.

Furthermore, over the past day, the IAF struck dozens of terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including terrorists, observation posts, military structures, and additional terrorist infrastructure.

Attached is video footage of the IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip: https://bit.ly/3Q6HRk4

Attached are photos from the IDF's operational activity in the Gaza Strip: https://IDFANC.activetrail.biz/ANC1804202439487645

** IDF: Locating and destroying underground tunnel routes and rocket production facilities; Expanding the operational hold on the Karni Corridor: footage from the targeted operation of the 162nd Division in the central Gaza Strip

Over the past week, the soldiers of the 401st Brigade combat team, together with forces of the Yahalom Unit, cleared and destroyed more than 100 terrorist infrastructure sites and eliminated more than 40 terrorists in close quarters combat and airstrikes. Among the terrorist infrastructure destroyed - several military targets of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, among them, a facility used for the production of rockets and weapons of the Hamas terrorist organization; and a facility used for the production of long-range rocket missiles of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.

The soldiers conducted an operational raid on an underground combat control center located under Wadi Gaza designed to prevent IDF forces from crossing Wadi Gaza. Many weapons belonging toHamas terrorists were found in the combat compound.

During the operation, 17 tunnel shafts were destroyed, including offensive shafts. In addition, the forces located a number of launchers and launching pits used by the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip.

Before the troops entered the area and during the operation, the 215th Fire Control Brigade eliminated many terrorists. The forces of the brigade, IAF fighter jets and aircraft targeted dozens of targets. The artillery units targeted terrorist infrastructure in the central Gaza Strip.

At the same time, the Nahal Brigade combat team has been carrying out operational activities in the area of ​​the Karni Corridor for the past three months. The corridor is a route that separates the northern and southern Gaza Strip, from which the forces have carried out targeted raids.

During the divisional operation this week, the forces, acting on intelligence information, eliminated terrorists with precision missiles; located weapons and tunnel shafts; and destroyed an underground route in the area.

So far dozens of targeted raids have been carried out, more than 1,000 terrorists have been eliminated in the area, and more than 20 kilometers of underground tunnel routes in the area of ​​the corridor have been destroyed.

Attached is an animated infographic of footage of the underground tunnel routes and their destruction: https://bit.ly/4aXwId7

Attached is footage of the location and destruction of the tunnel shafts in the area by the 401st Brigade combat team: https://bit.ly/3Uoc93d

Attached is footage from the activity of the Nahal Brigade combat team in the Central Gaza Strip: https://bit.ly/3xDtg9s

Attached is footage of the strikes of the 215th Brigade in the Central Gaza Strip: https://bit.ly/4aCkgjf

Attached is an animation of the activity of the Nahal Brigade combat team in the Karni Corridor: https://bit.ly/3vXahpF

Attached are photos of the tunnel shafts that were located: https://IDFANC.activetrail.biz/ANC09528

HAMAS’ REPORTS

Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades: We, in conjunction with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, targeted the Zionist military site Abu Mutbiq, east of the Central Governorate, with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells.

** A little while later... Scenes of the missile barrages used by the Al-Quds Brigades destroyed the occupied cities and settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip.

** Hezbollah: After careful monitoring and anticipation of the enemy’s movement in the Al-Marj location, and upon the arrival of the soldiers and vehicles to the specified section, our fighters targeted them with missile weapons and directly hit them, leaving them dead and wounded.

** Leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah group, Abdul Malik al-Houthi:

- There will be no stability as the Israeli enemy occupies Palestine and commits crimes in Gaza.

- The Israeli enemy will not succeed through genocidal crimes in achieving an image of victory for its army.

- The Israeli enemy intensifies its crimes in the West Bank in an attempt to displace the Palestinians from it.

During 7 months of aggression, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, including many children and women.

Western support for the Israeli enemy does not stop.

** Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades:

After their return from the battle lines, our mujahideen confirmed that they had detonated two booby-trapped tunnels in the Zionist engineering forces, leaving them dead and wounded in the Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip.

After their return from the battle lines, our mujahideen confirmed that they had detonated a minefield in enemy vehicles penetrating the Al-Mughraqa area in the middle of the Gaza Strip, destroying a number of them and leaving their crews dead and wounded.

** Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: “The missile unit targets enemy concentrations east of the Central Governorate with a missile salvo in response to the occupation’s crimes against our people.”

Israel Defense Forces/Hamas Brigade al-Qassam