Israeli soldiers found rocket launchers hidden in a garden and booby-trapped kindergarten rooms after a ground battle with Hamas militants in northern Gaza.
| Hamas militants were making a “last stand” in a hospital in northern Gaza this week in a showdown witnessed by areporter. Israeli warplanes, tanks and infantry cornered the last remains of a 1000-strong battalion of the terrorist group holed up in the Indonesian Hospital and a nearby school.tank fired off round after round. The air echoed with the pounding of airstrikes, the thud of mortars and the chattering of heavy-calibre machine guns.
Until five weeks ago, Beit Hanoun was home to more than 50,000 people. About half would have been under 20. Now it is broken, the devastation total.was driven in by open-top Humvee, whipping down a dirt track with a gunner poised above our heads. The city’s perimeter was a jagged mess of shattered homes. The convoy stopped at what would have been a communal area but now houses Israeli tanks, heavy armour and a platoon of troops.
The 551 say they did not find civilian corpses in Beit Hanoun when they came in. People had moved south, and only dead animals and Hamas terrorists lay strewn on the ground. As the battle in the Beit Hanoun hospital raged, the IDF said it was pushing into “the heart of Gaza City” for the first time since its withdrawal from the territory in 2005., in the heart of terror,” said Major General Yaron Finkelman, the head of the southern command, on Tuesday, describing the ongoing offensive as “a complex and difficult war”.
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