Visiting the southern Gaza Strip earlier today, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir tells troops he expects them to defeat Hamas’s Rafah Brigade.
“You returned to fight in the Gaza Strip, in an area where IDF troops are operating for the first time. I expect of you to defeat the Rafah Brigade and lead to victory wherever you are fighting,” Zamir says to troops in the so-called Morag Corridor area.
The IDF in September declared that Hamas’s Rafah Brigade had been defeated, although it had not operated in all areas of the city, including a large area of land between Rafah and Khan Younis, now known as the Morag Corridor.
The military says Zamir held an assessment with the head of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor and commander of the 36th Division, Brig. Gen. Moran Omer, the latter of whom is leading the offensive in the Morag Corridor.
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