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Sunday, January 21, 2024
Troops locate, destroy weapons plant, rocket launcher in central Gaza, says IDF
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Reservists of the Yiftah Brigade operating in central Gaza’s Maghazi camp located a weapons manufacturing plant and a nearby rocket launcher armed with projectiles, the IDF says.
The IDF says the troops raided a Hamas site in Maghazi, where they located machinery used to build firearms in the yard of a home. Nearby, a rocket launcher was found, it says.
Reservists of the Yiftah Brigade operating in central Gaza’s Maghazi camp located a weapons manufacturing plant and a nearby rocket launcher armed with projectiles, the IDF says.
The IDF says the troops raided a Hamas site in Maghazi, where they located machinery used to build… pic.twitter.com/LnIywb3AuC
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The machinery, weapons, rockets and rocket launcher were all later destroyed.
Amid the operation, the IDF says Hamas operatives fired an RPG at one of the unit’s tanks. The soldiers spotted the squad behind the attack, returned fire, and called in an airstrike, it says.
Some of the operatives were killed, while at least one fled and was later killed in a gun battle with troops, after being spotted by the Yiftah Brigade’s observation company.
