Dozens of terror operatives killed in overnight raid in north Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, IDF says

Dozens of terror operatives were killed in an overnight raid carried out by troops of the Givati Brigade in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the IDF says.

According to the military, the Givati troops raided an area of Beit Hanoun where there was a “concentration of terrorists,” following intelligence information on “the presence of terrorists in the area.”

During the operation, which also involved airstrikes, dozens of gunmen were killed, and several other terror operatives were detained, the IDF says.

In a separate operation in the adjacent town of Beit Lahiya, the IDF says, troops of the Kfir Brigade killed several terror operatives in ground combat and by directing airstrikes. The soldiers also located and destroyed weapons in the area.

Meanwhile, earlier this morning, the IDF says it carried out an airstrike against Hamas operatives at a command center embedded within a building that formerly housed the Abu Shabak medical clinic in Jabalia.

“The compound was used by the Hamas terrorists to plan and carry out terror activity against IDF troops and the State of Israel, and many weapons used by the Hamas terrorists were stored there,” the military says.

The IDF also says that last night fighter jets struck three terror cells in Gaza City, whose members were planning to carry out attacks against troops in the “immediate time frame.”

In all of the strikes, the IDF says it took steps to mitigate civilian harm, including by using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.