Israel takes control of a Hamas training complex in Khan Yunis – DW – 04/02/2024

Today, Sunday (02/04/2024), the Israeli occupation army dismantled a barracks agitation In Khan Yunis, where the training center and offices of its leader, Muhammad al-Sinwar, brother of Yahya al-Sinwar, the leader of the Islamic Group inside the country, are located. Gaza strip.

The military source said that in the compound known as Al-Qadisiyah, militants were planned and trained for the October 7 attacks in Israel.

He also said that Hamas members who had barricaded themselves near the site opened fire on the soldiers and were “neutralized by snipers, tanks and the Israeli air force.”

In the complex they found “large training areas,” where they found models simulating the entrances to Israeli kibbutzim, military bases, and armored vehicles of the Israel Defense Forces. Israel.

Since the beginning of December, Israeli forces have focused their offensive inside the Strip in Khan Yunis, the main city in the Gaza Strip and a Hamas stronghold in the south, where they believe Yahya Sinwar is hiding.

On October 7, more than 3,000 Hamas fighters launched an armed raid on dozens of residential communities in southern Israel, most of them kibbutzim, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping more than 250 others.

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