IDF says it killed more than 400 terrorists

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Palestinian firemen extinguish a fire that was raging in a building destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
Palestinian firemen extinguish a fire that was raging in a building destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

The Israel Defense Forces’ top spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, says the military killed more than 400 Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip, and captured dozens more, during the fighting that began yesterday.

“As of this hour, there are forces fighting in [Kibbutz] Kfar Aza, there are searches in a large number of towns. There are IDF forces in all towns, there is no town that does not have an IDF force in it,” Hagari says in a press conference.

Hagari says the IDF’s missions are to evacuate all residents from towns on the Gaza border, end the fighting in Israeli territory, control the breaches in the security barrier, and continue strikes against terror sites in the Strip.

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