The IDF says forces in the Gaza Strip killed dozens of terror operatives in the past month who had been planning attacks against IDF forces in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
These included Ahmad Abu Daf, who was serving as a deputy company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion, and who in this role planned, directed, and carried out dozens of attacks and ambushes against IDF forces, in addition to recruiting new operatives into the Hamas terror organization.
Another key operative killed was Taleb Sidqi Taleb Abu Atiwi, a team commander in Hamas’s Nukhba force who infiltrated Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, the army said.
The military also says the Air Force struck and destroyed buildings in Shejaiya and Zeitoun in northern Gaza that were used as meeting places for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen to plan attacks.
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