“The Israeli government, the Israel Defense Forces and the security forces will continue the war to release all abductees, complete the elimination of Hamas and ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to the State of Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office wrote in a statement released after an agreement was reached with Hamas to release the hostages in exchange for a ceasefire in the fighting in the Gaza Strip. But that is not all. The agreement between the terror group and Tel Aviv is “structured to facilitate the release of additional hostages in addition to the 50 hostages released in the first phase.” That’s what a senior American official believes after the agreement. Meanwhile, much talk continues about the fate of the Israeli prime minister and his responsibility for his failure to contain the threats posed by the Islamist political and paramilitary organization. There are rumors of a reshuffle of roles and, according to the Jerusalem Post, Unit 504 would increasingly become the focus of operations.
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But what is it? The reason why the Israel Defense Forces decided to give Unit 504 more prominence is because it was crucial in identifying and targeting the hospitals in Gaza, which we now know hide organized power centers of the terrorist group . According to the IDF, Unit 504 has interrogated more than 500 fedayeen since October 7 and has arrested at least 300 Islamists and “flagged” hundreds of terrorism-related websites since the ground operation began in the Gaza Strip. Activities .
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This spy team, again taking into account what we read in the Jerusalem Post and as Il Giornale reports, has received thousands of calls from all those Palestinians who have chosen to side with Israel and therefore against Hamas to take. However, in addition to being instrumental in conducting interrogations and prosecuting illegal activities, Unit 504 has developed a program that makes it possible to make the city of Gaza visible, thus managing to uncover many tunnels through which it the group manages to penetrate the outside world and communicate with it.