More than two years after the October 7 onslaught, police say officers found assault rifles and radios belonging to Hamas terrorists at a daycare in the Gaza border community of Be’eri.
The weapons and equipment had been left behind by the terrorists following the invasion of the kibbutz by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Sappers disarmed and removed the weapons, police add.
The IDF says it has uncovered a Hamas tunnel running underneath a hospital in Gaza City and an entrance to another adjacent to a separate medical center.
The first tunnel was located next to the Jordanian Hospital, in the south of Gaza City.
According to the IDF, troops of the 36th Division, including forces of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, found an entrance to the tunnel at a Hamas compound which is adjacent to the Jordanian Hospital.
The tunnel spans a kilometer and a half, and includes a weapons manufacturing workshop and other rooms, the military says.
The IDF says that according to its intelligence, Hamas company and platoon commanders had resided in the tunnel.
Itzik Elgert, an Israeli hostage whose body was returned in February under a hostage deal with Hamas, was tortured to death during interrogation in captivity, his brother Danny Elgert revealed in a post on X/Twitter on Thursday. “Today, after my brother’s autopsy, the facts are clear. Itzik did not die of a heart attack; he was tortured to death,” Danny wrote. According to Danny, the autopsy revealed that Itzik’s body arrived with extensive trauma, including multiple broken ribs, a fractured nose, and damaged toes – injuries suggesting brutal and sustained physical abuse. “He was murdered with extreme cruelty,” he added.
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