The Israel Defense Forces says Mustafa Dalloul, commander of the Hamas Sabra Tel al-Hawa battalion, was killed in an overnight airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Source: The Times of Israel
Details: According to the Israel Defense Forces, Dallul “played a key role in directing combat operations against IDF forces in the Gaza Strip.”
Separately, the IDF said that during night operations in the Gaza Strip, fighter jets, helicopter gunships and artillery led by Nahal Brigade infantry forces struck and killed several Hamas terrorists.
Meanwhile, during searches in the city of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip, soldiers of the 551st brigade discovered weapons (machine guns, submachine guns, grenades, explosive devices, RPGs and ammunition for them), as well as intelligence materials – maps and communications equipment .
IDF PHOTO PUBLISHED BY TIMESOFISRAEL.COM
Also overnight, the air force and navy struck several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, including buildings used by the militants to fire at ground troops and anti-tank missile launch sites, the IDF said.
Background:
On October 31, the IDF announced that it had begun combat with Hamas in the underground tunnels of the Gaza Strip. On November 2, the Israel Defense Forces said that ground troops and tanks clashed overnight with Hamas terrorist cells in the northern Gaza Strip, killing dozens of militants. It was also reported that the engineering forces of the Israel Defense Forces began a large-scale operation to destroy Hamas tunnels in areas of the Gaza Strip, where IDF troops had already entered; more than 100 tunnels have already been destroyed. The Israel Defense Forces later stated that they were already operating inside Gaza City and surrounding it from several sides. Earlier, senior Hamas member Ghazi Hamad hailed the massive attack on Israel on October 7, during which civilians were killed en masse, and vowed that the Palestinian terror group would repeat similar attacks many times in the future until it destroyed Israel.
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2023-11-03 07:27:31
