IDF says it found, destroyed largest Islamic Jihad rocket production site yet

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

IDF troops stand at the entrance to a Palestinian Islamic Jihad underground rocket manufacturing site in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout image published July 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
IDF troops stand at the entrance to a Palestinian Islamic Jihad underground rocket manufacturing site in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout image published July 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s largest rocket manufacturing site found to date has been located and demolished in southern Gaza’s Rafah, the military says.

The IDF says troops of the Commando Brigade, 401st Armored Brigade and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit raided an Islamic Jihad compound and underground site in Rafah’s northwestern Tel Sultan neighborhood.

The troops found an underground facility used by Islamic Jihad to manufacture rocket parts and long-range rockets, the IDF says.

According to the IDF, it is Islamic Jihad’s largest rocket manufacturing site in the Strip, and it was used to build hundreds of projectiles in recent years.

During the raid on the site, the IDF says the commandos and elite combat engineers battled gunmen above and below ground, as well as killing several operatives using drones and guided missiles.

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