US EditionIsrael Says It Has Killed 40 Fighters over Past Week in Operation to Clear Hamas’ Tunnels in Gaza
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The Israeli army is intensifying its operations in Rafah, targeting tunnel networks and claiming to have neutralized several dozen Hamas fighters The Israeli army claimed on Sunday
The Israeli army claimed on Sunday that it had killed more than 40 Palestinian fighters in the past week during its operations targeting tunnels near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip ravaged by two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
More than 40 Palestinian combatants from the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas were killed by the Israeli army last week, in military operations in the Gaza Strip, announced today Israel. More than a month ago, Israeli troops concentrated on fighting efforts in the eastern part of Rafah to "dismant the networks of underground tunnels still in the region and eliminate the terrorists who hide in them," referred to the army in a communication quoted …
The estimated number of still alive combatants in several tunnels, in most members of the Al-Qassam Brigadiers (the armed arm of the movement), is between 60 and 80.
The Israeli army says it killed dozens of Hamas fighters last week during operations to destroy tunnels in the Gaza Strip. The goal of the operations, which have been ongoing for 40 days near Rafah, is "to destroy the remaining underground tunnel systems in the area and eliminate the terrorists hiding within them," the army said on Sunday. It added that "more than 40 terrorists were eliminated" this week.
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