Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel
After three Hamas operatives surrendered to troops of the Givati Brigade in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun earlier at this time, the IDF introduced that Hamas’s battalion within the city had been defeated.
The Hamas gunmen additionally led the forces to a weapons depot close to the tunnel from which they emerged, the place the IDF says the troops discovered quite a few weapons and tools. Inside the tunnel, the troops additionally discovered meals, water, and different provides to have the ability to reside underground for lengthy intervals, the navy says.
The IDF says the three operatives had been taken for additional interrogation, the weapons had been seized, and fight engineers are mapping out the tunnel forward of its demolition.
“The Beit Hanoun Battalion, which posed a threat to Nir Am and Sderot, has surrendered and been defeated by Givati Brigade troops,” the IDF says.
Last week, throughout a tour of Beit Hanoun, the commander of the Givati Brigade told reporters that there have been simply 4 or 5 remaining gunmen within the space.
The IDF has operated in Beit Hanoun 5 instances for the reason that starting of the warfare, slowly degrading Hamas’s battalion there, which, earlier than October 7, 2023, consisted of over 1,000 operatives.
The majority of the Hamas gunmen within the Beit Hanoun Battalion had been both killed throughout the combating or fled, just like the battalion commander, Hussein Fayyad.
