IDF says troops demolish Hamas compound in Rafah, strike in central Gaza

During operations in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF says troops raided and demolished a Hamas training compound in west Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood.

Also in the Tel Sultan area, the IDF says troops killed several terror operatives, located tunnels and seized weapons.

Tel Sultan is one of four Hamas battalions in the terror group’s Rafah Brigade. So far, as IDF operations have focused along the Egypt-Gaza border, the Yabna Battalion, located in the south of the city, has sustained the most damage.

Meanwhile, the IDF says its operation in east Deir al-Balah and east Bureij in the central Gaza Strip continues, with strikes being carried out against dozens of sites used by terror groups and cells of gunmen.

One strike against a group of terror operatives adjacent to a tunnel shaft resulted in several rockets being fired. The IDF says the rockets impacted near the tunnel and there were no injuries among Israeli forces.

Troops also continue to operate in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip. The IDF says a strike was carried out in the area recently against a mortar-launching cell.