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The IDF's Spokesperson's Unit announced that the IDF and ISA are continuing the precise operational activity in the area of the Shifa Hospital while mitigating harm to civilians, patients, medical teams, and medical equipment. Over the past day, the troops have eliminated terrorists and located weapons and terrorist infrastructure in the area. IDF troops are also continuing operational activities in central Gaza. In cooperation with the IAF, the troops eliminated a number of terrorists over the past day. Based on IDF intelligence, the troops located and destroyed numerous rockets in the area, aimed toward Israel. During one of the activities,...

In the southern Gaza Strip, IDF troops continue to operate against terror targets in the area of Khan Yunis. The Commando Brigade, Shayetet 13, and additional special forces are continuing to conduct a precise and limited operation against the Hamas terrorist organization within the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. The activity is based on IDF intelligence indicating that Hamas terrorist activity is being carried out from within the hospital. The activity conducted led to approximately 100 individuals suspected of terrorist activity being apprehended. In parallel to the searches, IDF troops killed terrorists around the area of the hospital. Furthermore in...

The 55th Brigade has left Khan Yunis after two months of operations in the town during which 70 tunnel shafts were dismantled and numerous terrorist operatives were eliminated. Embedded video In the past two months, the 55th Brigade has been operating in the Khan Yunis area. The brigade located and dismantled tunnel shafts, destroyed numerous weapons, and eliminated a large number of terrorists. In recent weeks, the soldiers identified two sites used by Hamas terrorists to launch rockets toward Israeli territory. In another operation, the brigade's sniper teams identified and eliminated several terrorist cells. Additionally, an RPG was fired at...

IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis. Following Shin Bet (ISA) intelligence, IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis, who was responsible for the Kibbutz Nirim massacre. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives were also killed. The IDF also struck over one hundred military targets located in Zaytun, Khan Yunis, and west Jabaliya. These strikes impacted the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization, by...

Terror leader says rocket attacks at Israeli towns to intensify Hamas is "very satisfied" with reports here some Israelis in communities near the Gaza Strip are ready to flee their rocket-plagued towns while students reportedly have been skipping school for fear of being caught in regular Palestinian attacks, a senior leader of Hamas' military wing told WND in an interview yesterday. "The importance of what is happening in Sderot proves to the Palestinians, especially those who say rockets bring no results, that rocket attacks do bring big benefits," said Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational...

Israeli soldiers have killed six Palestinians, including a Hamas leader, during a large raid into the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops backed by tanks moved into the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis before dawn and surrounded the home of wanted Islamic militant Bassam Kadih. Soldiers opened fire when the Hamas fighter tried to flee with another person. The army says the two were blown apart when bullets struck a bomb Mr Kadih was carrying. The second victim has been identified as the Hamas militant's wife. Several other Palestinians have also been killed in gun battles with Israeli troops in Gaza....

Some 50 gunmen belonging to Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, raided the offices of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation in Khan Yunis Saturday night, demanding that they be employed by the Palestinian Authority security forces. This is the fourth incident of its kind in Khan Yunis in recent months. The Fatah gunmen have on previous occasions gone on a rampage inside the headquarters of PA Governor Hosni Zu'rub. Witnesses said the armed activists who stormed the offices of the PBC ordered all the employees to leave, demanding that Zu'rub fulfill his promise to absorb them in various branches of...

Sukkot Miracle In Netzer Hazani 18:21 Oct 12, '03 / 16 Tishrei 5764 Yoni and Mazal Tzen'ani and their four children were miraculously spared when a mortar shell scored a direct hit on their home in Gush Katif early Shabbat morning. "We woke up at 4 AM to the tremendous boom of a mortar shell entering our house," Yoni Tzen'ani, of Netzer Hazani, told Arutz-7 this morning. "The whole house trembled. Thank G-d we are miraculously OK. The shell landed in the living room, near the front door, and caused much destruction; this is a house that we built with...

A large force of IDF troops entered the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis late Saturday night, witnesses said. In the nearby settlement of Neve Dekalim, witnesses said that IAF Apache attack helicopters were seen hovering over Khan Yunis and reported hearing loud explosions and exchanges of gunfire. Israel Radio said that an armored IDF bulldozer had hit a mine that exploded without causing any injuries. There were no immediate reports of casualties on either side. In recent weeks the IDF has relentlessly targeted Palestinian terror groups, in particular the Hamas, who are acting out of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian military groups in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis were caught off guard by the army's deadly raid Monday, and are now preparing for the worst-case scenario of a large scale invasion. "We were not expecting such a large incursion and we had not thought they would enter from the northeast," says Rafik, one of the military leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)'s Khan Yunis branch. In a pre-dawn operation using tanks, bulldozers and helicopters and launched from the nearby Jewish settlement of Gane Tal, the Israeli army penetrated the Amal neighborhood of...