Footage emerges from Golani Brigade’s battle against dozens of Hamas fighters

The commander of the Golani Infantry Brigade’s 13th Battalion describes a dramatic overnight battle against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, during which troops managed to fight off an ambush and kill dozens of terrorists.

“While we were stopping, Hamas terrorists jumped out of tunnels, surrounded us from a number of areas, fired RPGs, and tried to reach our Namer [armored personnel carriers], and place explosives,” says Lt. Col. Tomer Greenberg in a video statement.

“Because we were well prepared, we managed to kill some of them, push back the others… the result was that they were dead and we continued our maneuver, until victory,” Greenberg adds.

In a radio recording shared by the IDF, Greenberg can be heard describing the fighting to the commander of the Golani Brigade: “We received a significant attack here, assault attempts, I need suppressing fire to repel the terrorists’ attacks. Anyone who is outside the APC, kill.”

One of the officers who participated in the battle, Lt. “Nun” — who can only be identified by his rank and first initial in Hebrew — says it was an “excellent battle.”

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“We encountered an ambush, and we battled dozens of terrorists. There are almost no injuries [to Israeli forces], and dozens of terrorists dead,” he says.

He says it was an “excellent battle, a remarkable battle. And now we are preparing for the next battle, until victory.”

The IDF also releases a short clip from the battle itself, showing troops inside an APC approaching the site of the fighting and opening fire.