After the encirclement of the northern Gaza Strip, IDF forces continue mopping up the area, damaging Hamas military infrastructure and destroying the underground tunnels that terrorists dug for years. Commanders report that even after the encirclement of the northern Gaza Strip, patience and patience are required, while the forces continue to work using the "shredder" method to deal with all the terrain in which they are located.
The activity of the 36th Division forces during the fighting | IDF Spokesperson
Despite the intensive operation and the fact that the war has been going on for a month, the forces report that they identify "cracks" in Hamas but still not "fractures," which requires more work time and a lot of patience. It is evident that the greatest fear of the forces is that they will be stopped in the middle and not allowed to complete the mission.
Field commanders also report that from the places where the military forces are located, there is no firing at Israel, partly because the terrorists are busy surviving and are not available to do so. As for the question of whether the great destruction in the Gaza Strip serves the terrorists or harms them, the IDF admits that the answer is complex, and there are faces one way or the other.
Documentation from the fierce battles in the Gaza Strip, photo: IDF Spokesperson
Despite the fact that on October 7 the intelligence failed colossally, during the fighting commanders praise the tactical and systemic intelligence injected into the forces, noting that it saves lives and allows them to kill many terrorists. The forces also praise the close work with the Air Force, which employs fire very close to the forces in order to neutralize threats and harm terrorists.
The army reports that hundreds of Hamas terrorists were killed underground, inside the tunnels, where the IDF uses special means to blow up or deal with the tunnels. In some cases, blowing up a tunnel in one place creates "geysers" in other places, indicating the location of additional shafts. The forces report that terrorists who leave the shafts are killed, so even if they have no choice, they remain in the burrows, and in many cases die there.
IDF forces near the Gaza Strip, photo: AFP
The activity of the 36th Division in the Gaza Strip,
The forces on the ground also report drones being used against them, although the IDF manages by various means to deal with the vast majority of drones as well. They also note that they prepared for a much larger quantity of mortar shells than those actually fired at the forces that entered the Gaza Strip, attributing this to the aerial pounding and the preparatory activities carried out by the Gaza Division before the maneuver.
The IDF knows that the humanitarian windows may be used by Hamas terrorists to flee south under the protection of the civilian population, and believe that there is a possibility that terrorists from the southern Gaza Strip are trying to reach the north in order to reinforce the terrorists in places where the army enters.
In places where senior Hamas commanders have been harmed, the forces report a decline in the quality of Hamas' fighting, since only when the command and control of the terrorist organization functions does it manage to concentrate dozens of terrorists in order to fight the IDF.
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