The IDF detailed on Thursday the results of the 188th Armored Brigade's eight-month mission in the southern Gaza Strip, conducted together with the Yahalom combat engineering unit. The forces dismantled over 10 underground tunnel routes used by Hamas, including one that had been used to hold hostages, and located a large cache of weapons including rocket launchers, rockets, grenades, explosives, and rifles.
The Zioneer reported at 17:50 that the 188th Brigade had completed its mission. The IDF's follow-up statement, released a minute later, provided additional operational details, including the involvement of the elite Yahalom unit and the discovery of a large weapons cache. The tunnel used to hold hostages underscores the continued effort to locate evidence related to hostages. The IDF emphasized that troops remain deployed in accordance with the ceasefire framework and continue to operate to remove threats.
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- StrongIDF destroys additional Hamas tunnel hundreds of meters long in northern Gaza
- StrongIDF says it demolished five Hamas tunnels, 2 km long, in northern Gaza
- DevelopingIDF destroys over 10 underground tunnel routes in Gaza, including hostage-holding tunnel
- DevelopingIDF weekly ops: over 1 km of Gaza tunnels destroyed, 60 suspects arrested in Judea and Samaria
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