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Israeli forces are reportedly closing on Hamas headquarters in Gaza City.
By Joshua Marks, JNS
he head of Hamas’s weapons manufacturing department in the Gaza Strip was killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
“As part of his role, Mohsen Abu Zina served as one of Hamas’ leading weapons developers, and was an expert in developing strategic weapons and rockets used by Hamas terrorists,” according to a joint statement by the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).
During IDF operations in Gaza overnight Tuesday, Israeli ground forces directed airstrikes on Hamas cells preparing to fire anti-tank missiles and launching rockets toward Israel.
Terrorists have fired more than 9,500 rockets at Israel since the initial barrage on Oct. 7, when thousands of Hamas terrorists broke through the border barrier and rampaged across southern Israel, murdering 1,400 persons, wounding over 5,000 and taking more than 200 hostages back to Gaza.
Sirens were heard in communities close to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.
IDF closing on Hamas HQ in Gaza City
Israeli forces advanced in the last day toward the main Hamas headquarters in the heart of Gaza City, including the Shifa Hospital, Army Radio reported on Wednesday.
The Hamas command and control center is located underneath Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, according to the IDF.
Pointing to a map of the hospital during a press conference last month, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that Hamas conducts its command and control from places like the X-ray room.
“It is here in Shifa Hospital where Hamas operates its command-and-control cells. Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa Hospital, with a network of terror tunnels. It also has an entrance to the tunnels from different places in the hospital,” said Hagari. “Right now, terrorists move freely at Shifa Hospital.”
Army Radio cited Israeli security officials as saying that, “Our goal is not to occupy all of Gaza City—there is no need for that. The goal is to collapse the Hamas centers in the city, the headquarters below the hospitals, the central mosques and other nerve centers. This way it will be possible to move forward to achieve the goals of the war.”
Maj. (Res.) Yaacov Ozeri falls in Gaza
The IDF on Wednesday released for publication that Maj. (res.) Yaacov Ozeri, 28, had fallen in battle against Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip.
Ozeri was from the Upper Galilee moshav of Kfar Shamai. He served in the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Brigade in the Armored Corps.
More than 30 Israeli soldiers have fallen in Gaza since the start of the IDF ground operation on Oct. 27.
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