The IDF assesses that Hamas' battalion frameworks in the northern Gaza Strip have disintegrated, and that Hamas terrorists are fighting in a decentralized manner, according to prior planning, and not according to an organized command and control. According to military sources, the organization in the northern Gaza Strip operates as a collection of operatives who each initiate in their own sector, and Hamas' ability to conduct a campaign as an organized military organization in the northern Gaza Strip is severely challenged.
Destruction of Hamas headquarters in the northern Gaza Strip, photo: IDF Spokesperson
Israel also believes that the connection between the northern and southern Gaza Strip is being challenged, but admits that Hamas operatives are not surrendering despite everything. According to military sources, Hamas operatives in the northern Gaza Strip are trying to survive and will usually not fight. Hamas understands that it cannot destroy the army's maneuvering forces, but it can cause the IDF small damage, by means of lone terrorists, and "celebrate" it. The damage to Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip can be seen in the dramatic decline in the number of launches from this area, explaining that the decline stems both from the damage to the systems themselves, as well as from the damage to Hamas' command and control.
Meanwhile, after the resounding failure of the Intelligence Directorate on October 7, the Intelligence Directorate is presenting advanced real-time intelligence capabilities to the combat echelon. The removal of 7 terrorists in just 10 minutes and the elimination of the commander of the Nasser-Rechuan Regional Company, terrorist Ahmad Siyam, are just some of the achievements that are happening in this war thanks to the rapid and efficient access of intelligence to the field, with dozens of Military Intelligence Directors operating for the first time, providing important and accurate intelligence to the forces maneuvering in the Gaza Strip.
Each division and maneuvering brigade combat team has a rear assembly called Adan (Military Intelligence for the deployed echelon), Photo: IDF Spokesperson
Each brigade has a rear assembly called ADA, whose purpose is to exhaust all sources of collection and research in the Intelligence Directorate and the Intelligence Community, which contains all the capabilities that the Intelligence Directorate can offer, and which is in direct contact with it in real time, in order to update the forces on every piece of intelligence received that may maintain the security of the forces, and increase the achievement of killing operatives.
Thus, for example, a number of indications arose in the Golani Brigade and the 36th Division indicated Hamas' intention to send a special squad to carry out a terrorist attack against the Golani Brigade forces. Adan Golani flooded the location of the active meeting point on the basis of daily and network sources, and carried out a full characterization of the planned outline of the operation. At the same time, a sharpening was carried out vis-à-vis the maneuvering division and the Shin Bet to formulate the fire plan. The division and brigade masters closed a research circle and framed the operatives' meeting point, which was attacked immediately afterwards when the forces testified that it was being captured.
"This is the first operational operation, dozens of military personnel are operating simultaneously and providing intelligence to the forces maneuvering in the Gaza Strip. We are learning and improving on the fly in order to serve two overarching goals: the elimination of terrorists from the Hamas terrorist organization, and the security of our forces," said a senior official at the IDF's Defense and Maneuver Center.
Identification and elimination of enemy by the Golani Brigade,
According to the source, "For more than a month, regular and reserve maneuver center personnel have been providing a complete response to all the maneuvering forces in the south and to the forces operating in the Northern Command. Among other things, the maneuver center assists in the accuracy of enemy formations against IDF forces, and in the central center, the ability to close fire-intelligence circles in the framework of combat." "In one divisional and divisional complex, there are positions from all the collection and research units in the division, wireless operators and network intelligence officers, decoders and researchers, all with the aim of ensuring the complete response to the tactical operational end. The center is a multidisciplinary intelligence organization, and emphasizes cooperation in the intelligence community and other relevant bodies."
Another example of closure carried out at the center of the maneuver was the assassination of the commander of the Nasser-Rechuan Regional Company, terrorist Ahmad Siyam. Last Friday morning, there was an indication that Adan Givati was in a school in the northern Gaza Strip. It was revealed that Ahmed Siyam held about 1,000 Gaza Strip residents hostage and human shields at Rantisi Hospital and prevented them from evacuating to the southern Gaza Strip. By cross-referencing several layers of research with all sources, it was confirmed that it was above the surface. At noon he was attacked by Israeli Air Force aircraft in a precise closure.
According to the 401st Brigade Officer, Maj. Y': "The EDN allows us, as a maneuvering brigade, to precise the same arrow tip. The contact with the EDN works effectively since it is an organic body of the brigade, which also routinely trains with the brigade and participates in its combat procedure."
"In an iron sword war, we took this multidisciplinary organization and took it one level up - all the intelligence personnel in the field are connected to the ED, and thus manage to maintain quick circle closures against terrorists, which are expressed in the use of fire or directing the lone tank at the end towards those terrorists. ADN 401 is definitely a signatory to many dozens of terrorists who died as a result of that rapid closure."
In one complex, sit wireless operators, network intelligence officers, decoders and researchers, Photo: IDF Spokesperson
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