The combat team fighters of the Yiftach Brigade (11) in cooperation with armor, intelligence and engineering forces, raided terrorist infrastructures in the Shejaiya area, with the aim of locating and destroying tunnel shafts of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.
As part of the operation in northern Shejaiya, the battle team located in the area of the home of Ahmed Samara, the director of the tunnel project of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the northern Gaza Strip, a battle plan for the October 7 attack. In addition, many weapons, training booklets of the terrorist organization, and tunnel shafts were found near his house.
During the activity to destroy the tunnel in the area of Samara's house, terrorists opened fire and set off a bomb inside the tunnel in an attempt to harm the IDF forces and prevent the destruction of the entire route. The fighters of the combat team who noticed suspicious activity from inside the tunnel, retreated before the explosion occurred, returned fire and artillery at the terrorists and stopped the attack.
At the end of the activity, the forces destroyed the underground tunnel route, the missile launcher and means of warfare that were located, and twelve buildings above the route that were used as terrorist targets, some of which were even booby-trapped.