The IDF says troops of the Commando Brigade’s Maglan unit are fighting Hamas deep within Khan Younis, including at one of the homes of the terror group’s Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar.
“In one of the battles, the troops operated above the ruins of one of his houses where he had lived in recent years, which was attacked from the air at the beginning of the war,” the IDF says.
The IDF releases footage showing the troops fighting in the area.
It says the commando forces killed several Hamas operatives during the operations in Khan Younis.
In one of the incidents, the IDF says the soldiers identified a Hamas cell coming out of a tunnel and aiming RPGs at them. The gunmen were killed before they managed to open fire, according to the IDF.
The IDF says the Maglan soldiers located a long-range rocket launcher, and several “significant” tunnel shafts.
The troops also raided the home of the head of Hamas’s rocket array in its northern Khan Younis battalion, and seized weapons and intelligence materials.
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