Posted on 07/04/25
| News Source: JPost
The IDF has taken operational control of over 65% of the Gaza Strip, with over 100 terrorists killed in the last week, the IDF and Shin Bet announced Friday evening.
The terrorists killed in the Southern Command over the past week included the head of the Combat Support Staff in Hamas's military wing, Hakham Muhammad Issa al-Issa, a division head in the Khan Yunis Brigade operations department, Mohammed Al-Sheikh, a company commander in the Zaytoun Battalion, Issa Abbas, and a company commander in the Sabra Battalion, Mohammed Jarasha. They were killed by troops under the guidance of Shin Bet and military intelligence.
As part of the operation, Divisions 98 and 162 attacked Hamas’s Gaza Brigade terrorists in northern Gaza.
The Israeli air force struck over 100 terror targets across Gaza in the past 24 hours, the IDF said earlier. Since the renewed Gaza operations began, the Air Force has struck over 7,500 sites used by terrorist organizations, including weapon storage depots, rocket launchers, underground tunnels, and terrorists.
Divisions 98, 99, 162, 36, and 143 are all operating within the Gaza Strip.
Division 98 destroyed several explosives embedded in the ground, meant to harm IDF troops, as it continued to operate in the area of Gaza City in the last week. Troops destroyed weapon depots and killed terrorists both in close-quarter combat and in airstrikes guided by the division's fire control center.