Israel Raids Terrorists' Luxury Homes And Takes Over Gaza Parliament And Police Headquarters

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By Ronny Reyes

Published November 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m. ET

Israel raided the luxury apartments as well as the parliament and police headquarters of Hamas terrorists in Gaza City on Sunday, taking control of the sites and discovering a trove of weapons and tunnel entrances underneath.

Israeli paratroopers and tank units attacked the Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal neighborhoods and carried out a series of rocket fires and attacks in the heart of Gaza City, where Hamas has been in power since 2007.

Much of the once-prosperous area has already been leveled by Israeli airstrikes since the war began last month, but the Israel Defense Forces said they still encountered and killed several Hamas operatives in Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal at the same time some houses of wealthy terrorists were raided.

The IDF said it found 35 tunnel shafts as well as dozens of weapons caches in the area leading to Hamas’ 300-mile underground network, the Jerusalem Post reported.

In addition, the IDF’s 7th Armored Brigade and Golani Infantry Brigade successfully seized control of Hamas’s parliament building, its entire government complex and its police headquarters, The Times of Israel reported.

IDF soldiers advance in the Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal neighborhoods of Gaza City on Sunday

The IDF also captured a university faculty building in Gaza that was allegedly used to produce and develop weapons for the terrorist group.

A Hamas training base, a command center, interrogation rooms and detention cells were also seized by the advancing Israeli army.

Hamas officials have not yet commented on the fighting in Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal, as communications failures have become the norm in Gaza.

Israeli soldiers also captured government facilities and Hamas headquarters. X/@manniefabian Much of the core of the Hamas government complex has been razed since the start of the war.X/@manniefabian

In other developments:

The White House warned Israel against launching a full-scale offensive in southern Gaza until the IDF finds a way to attack there while avoiding the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have fled south at Israel’s direction.

Yemen-based and Iran-backed Houthis rebels have hijacked an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Red Sea carrying dozens of people while vowing to carry out attacks on ships flying the Israeli flag.

The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry on October 7 accused the Jewish state of killing some of its own people, claiming that an Israeli police helicopter may have accidentally fired on attendees at the Nova Music Festival in Israel that day as it tried to escape To take revenge on Hamas it attacked the event.

Sunday’s Israeli strikes in Gaza are the latest advances by Israeli forces in the region’s north as they seek to destroy Hamas following the terror group’s Oct. 7 attack that killed more than 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians.

Here is the interior of a weapons cache uncovered in Rimal

According to the Hamas-affiliated Gaza Health Ministry, more than 11,500 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. At least 11 others were killed on Sunday after an Israeli airstrike hit a house in Jabalia.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that two schools in Gaza were hit by airstrikes in less than 24 hours, killing many women and children.

“Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are seeking shelter in United Nations facilities across the Gaza Strip due to intensified fighting,” Guterres said in a statement. “I certify that our premises are inviolable.”

The secretary-general’s statement came as Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East, said shelters in Gaza could not become “collateral damage” in the war between Israel and Hamas.

“Most of the affected facilities had families living in them – including the elderly, parents and children,” Lazzarini said in a statement. “They were all clearly marked as UN buildings with the blue flag.

“Again, shelters intended to provide security and protection to civilians were attacked, killing many people, including children,” he said. “Not only do these acts blatantly violate the rules of war, they also show a complete disregard for humanity.”

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