Soldiers of the 460th Brigade’s combat team eliminated dozens of terrorists over the past day in various encounters, in air strikes, and with sniper, machine gun, and tank fire.
In one of the incidents, an aircraft identified a terrorist with an RPG and running towards the soldiers. The forces eliminated the terrorist with tank fire before he could fire.
Soldiers of the Paratroop brigade’s combat team began an offensive to destroy the terror infrastructures in the city of Khan Yunis, during which they identified a terrorist taking an RPG from a tunnel shaft and threw a number of grenades at him.
The soldiers also identified a number of terrorists hiding in a structure and eliminated them with tank fire. In addition, the 7th Brigade’s combat team identified a terrorist in Khan Yunis who was about 100 meters from the forces. The soldiers directed a drone which eliminated the terrorists. In another incident, a combat team identified a terrorist squad which holed up in a structure and directed an air strike which eliminated them.
The 261st Brigade’s (Bahad 1) combat team did an intelligence sweep in the home of a Hamas terrorist on the outskirts of Jebaliya. During the sweeps, his home was found to contain a Hamas military certificate, weapons, and a manual to study the IDF. In addition, the soldiers found pictures of children holding weapons, grenades, and RPGs.