Hamas says it has captured 45 “collaborators” in the counter-intelligence operation that followed an Israeli commando operation in Gaza on November 11.
An IDF officer, Lt. Col. “M,” and seven Hamas fighters were killed when the Israeli cell, dressed as Palestinians, was exposed on the outskirts of Khan Younis.
The operation then degenerated into a gunfight in the street and a frenetic car chase, and sparked a massive retaliation by Hamas in the form of more than 400 rockets and mortar shells fired at Israeli towns and villages on November 12 and 13. The flare-up was followed by an intense wave of Israeli airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Strip, before Israel and Hamas acquiesced to an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire.
The cease-fire in turn led to the resignation of then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman in protest, followed by a week of political chaos as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to hold his razor-thin majority coalition together and avoid early elections.
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