Israel Strikes Re-Establishing Hamas in Northern Gaza

Jerusalem, 8 July, 2024 (TPS) -- Israel struck Hamas positions in northern Gaza where the terror group is trying to re-establish itself, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday morning.

In the northern Gaza town of Shejaya, aircraft and ground forces eliminated numerous terrorists, including dozens of members of Hamas rocket and anti-tank missile units. Troops also dismantled Hamas infrastructure.

In the southern Gaza area of Rafah, ground forces and aircraft eliminated more than 30 Hamas terrorists who posed a threat to soldiers. Forces also located several tunnel shafts and seized weapons.

Aircraft also struck ready-to-use rocket launching sites in Khan Yunis and Gaza City.

Overnight, the Air Force struck numerous other Hamas targets across the Strip.

In recent days, Israel also struck Hamas terror squads hiding in schools and medical clinics, including in Gaza City and two UN schools in Gaza City’s Al-Furqan and Daraj Tuffah neighborhoods.

During the weekend, Israeli forces destroyed a tunnel shaft found in the Khan Yunis City Hall which Hamas used as a gathering point, and a UN school in the Nuseirat refugee camp the terror group used as a command center.

Troops also raided a medical clinic and a UN school within a humanitarian compound in the northern Gaza area of Shejaya. Weapons, grenades and intelligence documents were seized from the school, while a war room inside the medical clinic was discovered containing communications and observation devices, and intelligence documents.

At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 116 remaining hostages, more than 30 are believed dead.