Following a three-week onslaught that forced tens of thousands of residents to flee the area, Israeli forces have left Jabalia in northern Gaza.
According to the military, the operation resulted in the destruction of 10 km (6 miles) of tunnels and the “elimination of hundreds of terrorists.”
Images from Jabalia depict extensive damage, with multi-story structures reduced to ruins or bombed-out shells.
Months after withdrawing, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) returned to the city, claiming Hamas was reorganizing there.
The bodies of seven Israelis who were slain on October 7th during the Hamas attack on Israel and transported to Gaza were found and returned home during the operation.
IDF officers reportedly told The Times of Israel that the combat in Jabalia was among the fiercest.
The Israeli Defense Forces claimed that Hamas “turned the civilian area into a fortified combat compound, fired towards the troops from sheltered areas and schools, and built an underground terrorist network from within civilian buildings” .
It claimed to have destroyed many sites used for producing weapons as well as “ready-to-use” rocket launchers.
Four months after announcing that it had destroyed Hamas’s military capabilities in northern Gaza, the IDF conducted its second ground assault in Jabalia.
