The IDF announced it killed five Hamas operatives over the weekend in the northern Gaza Strip. The military said the operatives were attempting to rehabilitate underground terror infrastructure west of the Yellow Line, an area under Hamas control.
The IDF announced Monday that over the weekend its forces killed five Hamas operatives in the northern Gaza Strip, west of the Yellow Line, who were attempting to rehabilitate underground tunnel infrastructure. The military said the operatives were operating in an area under Hamas control, and that forces remain deployed in the region under the ceasefire agreement.
Earlier today (Mon 14:42 Jerusalem), The Zioneer reported that the IDF had struck five terrorists in the same area, identifying the killed operative as Hefzi Hasein Abdallah al-Hawajri, a Hamas Nukhba member from the eastern Jabaliya battalion. At that time, the military said hits were confirmed on additional terrorists, but did not state the number killed. The initial version of the report (also Mon 14:42 Jerusalem) had described the incident as a strike on a cell of five operatives advancing attack plots, with one killed and four wounded. The latest IDF statement revises the outcome to five killed and specifies the tunnel rehabilitation as the trigger.
The Zioneer has reported extensively on IDF operations in northern Gaza aimed at preventing the reconstruction of terror infrastructure. In a separate background bulletin, the IDF killed three armed Hamas operatives advancing attack plots in the same area on Jun 22, 17:32 Jerusalem. The military continues to enforce the ceasefire agreement, with forces patrolling the area west of the Yellow Line.
The IDF's claim that all five operatives were killed and that they were engaged in tunnel rehabilitation remains based on the military's own announcement. No independent confirmation or details on the tunnel's condition or the operatives' identities beyond the named Nukhba member have been provided.
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