The forces of the 36th Division gained an operational hold in the Shejaiya neighborhood. IDF forces will continue to occupy the area and carry out targeted maneuvers in the neighborhood according to operational need.
During the fighting in the neighborhood, the forces came face-to-face with terrorists who shot, attacked and threw explosives at the division's forces from buildings in a built-up and dense space and they were eliminated in intense battles while charging and commanding from the front. The forces of the division carried out extensive attacks in the neighborhood, hundreds of targets were attacked with the aid of fire, and dozens of tunnel shafts were exposed in a large number of houses, schools and clinics, and thwarted. In civilian houses in the neighborhood, the fighters located many weapons and training materials of the terrorist organization Hamas.
The divisional combat team of the Golani Brigade raided the homes of senior members of the Hamas terrorist organization and confiscated intelligence material. The brigade combat team of the 188th brigade raided and took over the headquarters of the Shejaiya battalion, from where some of the terrorists who carried out the massacre on Saturday October 7th came from. The brigade combat team of the paratroopers destroyed over 100 terrorist buildings, exposed and destroyed dozens of tunnel shafts, arrested many terrorists who surrendered and transferred them to the security forces for investigation, including a Hamas company commander and terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre. The infantry school's divisional combat team thwarted and destroyed dozens of buildings used by the terrorist organization Hamas.
