{"id":115727,"date":"2024-09-13T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=115727"},"modified":"2024-09-13T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T06:46:31","slug":"16-05-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=115727","title":{"rendered":"IDF declares victory over Hamas\u2019s Rafah brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>IDF declares victory over Hamas\u2019s Rafah brigade<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Israel at War<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Since the start of the Rafah operation, troops have killed more than 2,000 terrorists and destroyed some eight miles of tunnels.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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\nIsraeli soldiers operating in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. Photo by Oren Cohen\/Flash90.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Israel Defense Forces has defeated Hamas\u2019s Rafah brigade, the military declared on Thursday after four months of targeted raids in the area of the Gaza Strip\u2019s southernmost city near the border with Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the start of the Rafah operation on May 6, troops have killed more than 2,000 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists and destroyed some eight miles of underground smuggling and attack routes, according to an Israeli army statement on Thursday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring these operations, the troops have dismantled the Rafah brigade of the Hamas terrorist organization,\u201d the military formally declared.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent weeks, the IDF\u2019s Nahal Brigade, Givati Brigade, 401st Brigade, Yahalom combat engineering unit and Shayetet 13 naval commando unit have been operating in Tel al-Sultan, western Rafah, the IDF said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In \u201cintelligence-based targeted\u201d operations, troops killed more than 250 terrorists, including the commander of Hamas\u2019s Tel al-Sultan Battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, and most of the battalion\u2019s chain of command.<\/span><\/p>\n

Troops destroyed some 80% of tunnels located near and beneath the Philadelphi Corridor, the army statement noted, using the IDF\u2019s name for the 8.5-mile-long land strip along the border with Egypt. It added that forces continue to discover and destroy underground routes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking with reporters on Thursday, 162nd Division commander Brig.\u00a0Gen. Itzik Cohen declared\u00a0that \u201cfour battalions have been destroyed,\u00a0and we have completed operational control over the entire urban area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Rafah<\/a>\u00a0brigade and its four battalions\u2014Yabna (south), east Rafah, Tel al-Sultan (west)\u00a0and\u00a0Shaboura (north)\u2014was the terror group\u2019s final functioning brigade, according to past Israel military assessments.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Aug. 21, Israeli Defense Minister\u00a0Yoav Gallant<\/a>\u00a0during\u00a0a visit to Gaza\u00a0first\u00a0declared that the IDF had achieved victory over the Rafah brigade.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI came here first\u00a0and foremost\u00a0to express my appreciation [to the soldiers]. The IDF\u2019s 162nd Division defeated the Rafah brigade,\u201d the defense minister stated following a tour of the Philadelphi Corridor.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, the IDF had located and destroyed around 150 tunnels, and after Gallant ordered the destruction of the remaining smuggling routes, some 50 more were blown up by the forces, Cohen said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost of them we have destroyed,\u201d the Israeli general told journalists, adding: \u201cWe are operating at the other sites to investigate them, and when we\u00a0finish investigating,\u00a0they will be destroyed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Rafah<\/a>\u00a0operation resulted in a great deal of friction with Washington. In addition to some 3,000 terrorists, more than a million Gazans sought shelter in the southernmost city earlier this year when the IDF fighting was concentrated in the northern and then central sections of the coastal enclave. Once Rafah was slated to be the new operations area, concerns focused on potential harm to the congested civilian population, so the determination was made to evacuate them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within a fortnight after the start of the operation in Rafah, around 950,000\u00a0civilians<\/a>\u00a0were moved\u00a0from the city to humanitarian zones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Netanyahu<\/a>\u00a0repeatedly emphasized that telling Jerusalem not to operate in Rafah is equivalent to demanding that it lose the\u00a0war<\/a>, warning in March that Hamas could \u201cregroup, rearm and reconquer Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On Aug. 31, the\u00a0bodies\u00a0<\/a>of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Almog Sarusi, 25, Alexander Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Master Sgt. Ori Danino, 25, were found in a Rafah tunnel.<\/span><\/p>\n

As many as three-quarters of Jewish Israelis and a majority of Israelis\u00a0overall\u00a0supported expanding the military operations to\u00a0Rafah<\/a>, according to a survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute in March.<\/span><\/p>\n

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