The IDF carried out a new incursion into the center of the Gaza Strip using armored vehicles and helicopters. Hamas weapons and men were neutralized.
The Israeli army announced on Friday morning, October 27, that its infantry, supported by “hunters and drones,” carried out a “targeted raid in the central part of the Gaza Strip” against Hamas targets.
The soldiers then left the Palestinian territory without reporting any injuries, the army said in a statement. In addition to this raid, the army said it had bombed Hamas sites “across the Gaza Strip.”
In parallel with this ground operation, targets of “the terrorist organization Hamas” in the center of the territory “and throughout the Gaza Strip” were bombed, the press release said.
Weapons and men neutralized
According to the press release, rocket launchers and Hamas command centers were destroyed and men from the Palestinian Islamist movement were neutralized.
Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on its territory, the Israeli army has relentlessly shelled Palestinian territory and carried out regular incursions there, in anticipation of a likely ground offensive repeatedly promised by political leaders and military officials. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, it announced that it had carried out a targeted tank attack in the north of the Gaza Strip.
The war was sparked by Hamas attacks on Israeli soil that were unprecedented in their scale and violence and, according to Israel, killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians. About 220 people are being held hostage after being forcibly taken into the Gaza Strip, where Hamas has been in power since 2007.
For its part, Hamas’s Ministry of Health announced that the retaliatory bombings killed more than 7,000 people, the vast majority civilians, including more than 2,900 children.