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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on January 25 that its troops are advancing in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a statement released in the morning, the IDF says snipers from the 98th Division’s Paratroopers Brigade took out “many” Palestinian fighters in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis.
According to the IDF, dozens of Hamas fighters were neutralized in the past day, including ten who were killed in two separate airstrikes in the city, some of whom were armed with rocket-propelled grenades. Israeli troops also destroyed infrastructure and weapons in the area, the IDF said.
In addition, the Maglan commando unit raided several Hamas sites in the southern city, including command centers where fighters were killed by the troops in close-quarters combat, according to the IDF.
The IDF also published footage that shows an attack helicopter striking a building and killing fighters who had opened fire on reservists of the Yiftah Brigade in central Gaza.
Later in the afternoon, the IDF announced that troops of its elite Commando Brigade were establishing operational control in “the heart of” Khan Younis.
The brigade was “continuing the offensive in the Khan Younis area, and is deepening the operational control of the Hamas terrorists’ stronghold,” the IDF said. It added that the troops encountered while advancing in the city many Hamas cells, which were “eliminated with sniper fire, guided missiles, and tank shelling.”
In what the IDF described as a “special operation” carried out by snipers from the brigade’s Egoz unit over the course of a number of hours, several Hamas fighters were killed after being tricked into coming out of tunnels in Khan Younis.
And in another afternoon update, the IDF said that troops from the Paratroopers Brigade further expanded their activities in Khan Younis. It also released footage showing Hamas fighters being killed by sniper fire and in close-quarters encounters.
The Paratroopers Brigade encountered numerous Hamas fighters, raided the group’s sites and seized and destroyed weapons, the IDF said.
It added that the paratroops located a large cache of firearms, grenades, explosive devices to be dropped from drones, and mortars during a raid on a Hamas site in the city.
In another raid, three Hamas fighters opened fire at the troops. The IDF said that the paratroopers returned fire, killing two of the operatives, while the third fled into a building.
The IDF developed its ground operations in Khan Younis earlier this week in an apparent response to the al-Maghazi attack in central Gaza, which claimed the lives of 23 Israeli troops. Despite reporting major gains, the situation in the city remains unclear. Hamas and other Palestinian factions are still present there and resisting.
bloody hell; the terrorists in ham as are not resisting. they die as the rats they are, hiding behind the civil population and use them as a shield.
out!
one day your god satan might give you all 2 brain cells.
40 beheaded children – good old jewish lie. rape claims – good old jewish lie. winning in gaza – over 3 months in and nothing went to zionists way.
gaza strip is only 365 km² with population of 2 million palestinians. ofc, a moron like you don’t understand facts or math lmfao.
just fuking come out with better bs – stop saying shit people laugh at you all these years. lazy cunts.
the whole unit 8300 is now just some bots, get some update.
israel admits it killed its own at nova music festival – it is part of their code btw it is called hannibal directive.
right now european jews attacking each others, one side wants to kill all the captured people and other side that have family members don’t want to see them killed lol.
bibi knows he is done once this war is over so he want bigger war and a longer war… his son and family members are safe lol.
the poor palestinians are being slaughtered like dogs! hamas and their people are in regret of ever taking the bait and attacking israel. this current war or slaughter, is a perfect example of winning a battle, but losing the war!
yup people like you would just sit and die like pigs in a slaughterhouse lmfao. you are just a pathetic being.
gaza is the perfect example of a holocaust and genocide, not that fake holocaust where jewes killed other jews over money and gold!!!
during the fake holocaust the rats in aushwitz were huge and nobody died!!! now in the real gaza holocaust, genocide of women and children, and the rats are bombing them with help from the united paedophiles of bill clinton raping children
they, the hamas terrorists, have broght themselves an endless generational curse that stretches all the way back from the sons of ishmael.
hahaha…keep trying. everyone knows the leech state is not long for this world. the entire world will will owe palestinians for their sacrifice in eliminating the terrorist enclave.
if the muslims put down their weapons, there will be peace. if the israelis put down their weapons, they will be destroyed.
no one welcomes settlers lol… yeah you are saying you would allow some fukers that you don’t know into your house. white europeans that have 20% “jewish dna”… yeah sure that is jewish i guess.
why do you think israel banned dna testing lmfao.
look at the people around the world for one sec – they all support palestinians because they would do the same thing if they were palestinians.
ask any zionists what would they do if they were palestinians, their face change so fast lol.
jews marry jews from a close family circle e.g cousins. this is incest and their children come out paralyzed and mentally retarded¨ because of this, while they shoot women and babies, laugh like vampires.
israeli university find out jewish settlers are closer to europeans and jews that lived in palestine are closer to arabs. ofc that is nothing crazy – but we can all see who is the problem here… european jews (they even bitch about being a dual citizen).
for many years people know european jews are the problem, they started this whole zionism movement and we all know what they said from start – they are settlers.
what you said is not wrong but that is also not the only reason for it.
if the united paedophiles of bill clinton raping children stops funding israel’s campaign of genocide and the real holocaust, only then there will be peace!!! jewes have been carrying out holocaust on palestinians since 1945!!! disarm the murderous genocidal jewes before they kill us all!!!
‘peace’ to israelis means death to everyone else. no thanks. israel is on it’s last legs, they even resort to eating their own. the public would hang nutsack in a second if the coward leaves his security detail.
one day indians, zionists, neo-naizs, daesh and kurdish rtds learn how to do propaganda right.
not sure if you people saw it or not but indians support israel and let me post what one of them said – “oh israelis women you are so beautiful i love israel”… those are your keyboard warriors zionists lmfao.
victory is imminent for the idf they’ve captured enough weaponry to arm a small… platoon. if i were a palestinian i wouldn’t hang out my washing on a rooftop. the israeli attack helicopter chickenhawks cant be trusted to identify israeli nightclubbers from hamas gunmen let alone innocents hanging out their washing.
palestinian holocaust is only real holocaust, jewe holocaust was fake like isis uiyghers in china!!!urerous jewes killed jewes and they expect us all to believe in fake holocaust, fake genocide!!! real genocide and holocaust is happening in palestine right now!!!
in a few days the neo-nazi jews ,killers of women and children will be blown up en masse again .
allah is fucked in hes asss
bahahahaha sounds like allah fucked your ass!!! it must be painful 😘
yes we are potato cornered :(
bloddy hell my sons of b*tches! my men keep exposing themselves and getting killed from bombs and shell fire! how many times i have to tell them to plant booby traps and do sneaky rpg shot and hide back in tunnels!
allahu akbar! my men died!
allahu akbar yahya pedomanic sinwar. a happy rat is a dead rat
my men aren’t as smart. they can’t do what the vietcongs successfully did.
– yahya “the pedomaniac” sinwar.
“mission failed successfully”
– yahya “the pedomaniac” sinwar
israel was there before this palestinian roman state yes it was named by western powers back in the day. i don’t condone killing on any side but if you look back in history you will see. the pope is definitely involved in this as well hell bent on getting israel under papal control.