Division 162 forces continue fighting in the north and center of the Strip;
The fighters raid terrorist infrastructures and eliminate many terrorists in the Gaza Strip / IDF spokesperson
The IDF estimates today (Wednesday) that so far more than 60% of the Hamas battalions have been eliminated in the war, in which department commanders, company commanders and battalion commanders and their replacements operated. Now, the challenge facing the security forces is to eliminate the remaining battalion commanders, brigade commanders - and officials Senior officials in the military and political arm of the terrorist organization
in the IDF revealed to the political echelon that the terrorist organization ceased to be a "large military framework" that carries out attacks involving more than 8 terrorists in the north and center of the Gaza Strip, and switched to guerrilla warfare.
While the terrorist organization is trying to recover from the blows, Division 162 under the command of Brigadier General Itzik Cohen began to attack launch sites and military strongholds in the Daraj Tupah neighborhood in central Gaza and the city of Jabaliya in the north, both from the Gaza Strip and from Israeli territory.
Activity of IDF forces in the Gaza Strip/IDF spokesperson
In the last 48 hours, the division operated with combat teams in various brigades, including the Nahal Brigade, at several targets in the heart of Gaza City, including the Shifa Hospital - and eliminated about a hundred terrorists. Dozens of them were eliminated in a maneuver that began with the 401st Brigade Combat Team, in Shaval, within an area of approx. - 20 kilometers.
The IDF clarified that of the 1.2 million Palestinians who lived in the north and center of the Strip, only about 150,000 remained.
"The sparseness of the population, relative to what it was, allows for aggressive action against terrorists - and there is still an effort to move more population south," said a senior military official.
"In practice, we switched to a method of raids, and not a broad maneuver. We no longer need that. There is not the same resistance and the same terrorist infrastructures that were at the beginning of the fighting," he explained.
"Actually, in some parts of the Gaza Strip, we have started to carry out operations that are a type of 'grass mowing'. This is not the great resistance we saw at the beginning. The terrorists are afraid to fight. This does not mean that there is no resistance, but the method is clear. Is there intelligence? We carry out a maneuver according to the size of the threat and the location."
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Fighters of the 4th Brigade Combat Team in the Khan Yunis area, Gaza Strip.
January 30, 2024/IDF spokesman
In the meantime, the army revealed that six of the Hamas infrastructure centers for the production of explosives below the surface were destroyed. "It has production centers for charges, rockets and mortar bombs left, but without the large production lines it will have difficulty keeping up with a reasonable pace to catch up," said another senior military official "We dismantled the logic of the military arm.
Anywhere you see adjacent to each other, such as a mosque, a clinic and an educational institution - most likely you will find a significant and important underground structure for Hamas.
" Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the north and center of the Strip.
This, while the 99th Division is fighting in the central camps, and the 98th Division is still fighting in Khan Yunis - but it is possible that in the future it will move to operate in the city of Rafah, adjacent to the border with Egypt.
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