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IDF has captured over 100 Hamas operatives in last two days, Gallant says
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says more than 100 Hamas operatives were captured by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip in recent days, including some who surrendered after hiding in tunnels.
“Hamas is collapsing into its own tunnels that it painstakingly dug. Every place it thought would be a trap for IDF soldiers becomes an area where we hit it,” Gallant says to soldiers of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit.
Gallant says Hamas has “hundreds of casualties underground” as a result of Yahalom’s actions.
“In the past day and a half, we have over 100 captives, some of them who came up from underground, in the Khan Younis area and also in other places, because they realize that they can’t fight against the IDF,” he says.
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