The IDF uncovered and destroyed a Hamas tunnel shaft on Sunday in northern Gaza that concealed an operations room used by the terror group’s Zeitoun Battalion to coordinate attacks.
The Nahal Brigade, under the command of Division 99, conducted operations in the Zeitoun neighborhood in northern Gaza.
As part of their activity, the soldiers destroyed an underground route stretching hundreds of meters, inside which they located an operations room used by Hamas’s Zeitoun Battalion to coordinate terrorist activities against Israeli forces.
The brigade’s fire units struck and killed terrorists hiding in a building beneath, in which there was an operational shaft leading to the underground route. In addition, dozens of terror targets were attacked, including observation posts and weapons depots that posed a direct threat to the forces in the area.
The IDF’s activity in Zeitoun is part of a wider operational push that began in recent weeks around Gaza City, as Israeli soldiers work to dismantle remaining Hamas strongholds.
IDF expands Gaza City operations
In August, the military uncovered a nearly one-kilometer-long tunnel route beneath a cemetery in the Daraj Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City. That tunnel reportedly contained launch pits used for firing rockets at Israeli territory.
In another incident last month, several Hamas terrorists affiliated with the Beit Hanun Battalion surrendered after emerging from tunnel shafts in northern Gaza.