On Thursday, Israeli troops in Rafah found the entrance to a Hamas tunnel inside a child’s bedroom.
The IDF claims to have found a cache of explosives and weapons inside the tunnel. Israel describes the operation as one of its “precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations” within Rafah. It is the most recent one.
“This week, the soldiers found a butcher’s knife close to a subterranean shaft inside a kid’s room. Additionally, the troops found six terrorists near a nearby school. A UAV and tank fire destroyed the terrorists,” the IDF claimed in a statement.
Photos made public by the IDF depict soldiers at work in Rafah’s congested urban area. Pictures also reveal the troop stash of weapons, explosives, and other gear.
The operation was made public on the same day that an Israeli attack eliminated militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who were holed up in a key Gaza UN school for displaced Palestinians. More than thirty individuals were killed in the strike, according to local officials, 23 of them were women and children.
Israel said that many of the 20–30 fighters inside the school had already been killed and that it was attacking a Hamas complex there.
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Witnesses and hospital officials report that the predawn strike targeted the al-Sardi School, which is administered by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). They reported that Palestinians who had escaped Israeli airstrikes and offensives in northern Gaza were crammed into the school.
