IDF says Netzah Yehuda Battalion carrying out new pinpoint operation in north Gaza’s Beit Hanoun

The IDF launched a new pinpoint operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun just before Passover began yesterday.

The raid is being carried out by the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, alongside other forces under the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade.

The military says the Netzah Yehuda troops destroyed several sites belonging to terror groups in the area, including tunnel shafts.

Amid the operation, Sgt. First Class (res.) Salm Alkreshat, a tracker in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, was killed.

Earlier today, the chief of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, held an assessment with troops in the area, the military adds.

This marks the fourth operation carried out by the Netzah Yehuda Battalion in Gaza amid the war.

The unit, made up of ultra-Orthodox troops, had previously been permanently stationed in the West Bank, where it was at the center of several controversies connected to right-wing extremism and violence against Palestinians.

As a result of those past incidents, the United States is planning to blacklist the unit.