JERUSALEM (JNS) – In the 11 days of the Israeli Defense Forces’ “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Israeli forces destroyed some 62 miles of Hamas’s tunnel network in the Gaza Strip, according to IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman.
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Speaking hours after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire took effect on Friday, Zilberman reported that some 200 Hamas operatives, including 25 high-ranking members, had been targeted and killed in IDF strikes during the fighting in Gaza.
Israeli forces also demolished some 340 rocket launchers and 70 multi-barrel rocket launchers, as well as 35 mortars, according to the IDF.
Ten Hamas government offices were destroyed, as well as 11 buildings belonging to its internal security forces and five banks used by Hamas.
Israel also targeted and destroyed “dozens” of training camps and outposts, a command and control center and nine high-rise buildings that housed Hamas infrastructure, Zilberman added.
The IDF also destroyed several dozen anti-tank targets and two unspecified “maritime threats.”
Zilberman also said that two drone attacks by Hamas had been thwarted, and said that Hamas’s manufacturing and development capabilities had been degraded.
As for the performance of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, Zilberman said that over the course of the operation, the system had intercepted 90 percent of incoming rockets deemed to pose a threat to populated areas.
After Israel’s Diplomatic-Security Cabinet voted on Thursday night to accept the ceasefire, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, “the defense establishment maintains its willingness to defend the citizens of Israel, and the security forces and the IDF are deployed in the field, on all fronts, for defense and offense. The reality on the ground will decide how we continue to operate.”
Gantz said that the IDF and Israel’s other security forces had secured “military achievements unprecedented in their power, precision and strategic significance” during the operation.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
Bibi bows to Biden the two facer pressure. We miss the days when a president gave free reins to Israel
Big deal they’ll rebuild and they have 30 wives they’ll reproduce like rats
why don’t we calculate how much cement & steel was used for the terror tunnels & rockets. so the bleeding hart libs /dems /left will have at least a second of hesitation before giving hamas more money
Finish the job already!!
Blah Blah Blah- Natenyahu is a WIMP.
Doesn’t finish the job, only to see them back again in 3 maybe 4 years
with more and deadlier ordinance.
And now they can get get more weapons and make more tunnels because Israel made a ceasefire.
As people have stated above, this operation in the end was a failure. Israel had an obligation to provide safety to it’s citizens. This was nor accomplished and the threat remains. It will come back again and people will die again.
If Bibi won’t do what is needed then another leader is needed who will finish the job.
Is it 62 miles or 62 km?
Unbelievable…..all the Brooklynites upset about how the war was fought and the decisions made. I hope that the war did not interrupt your Chulent supply. You armchair generals disgust me!