[IsraelTimes] Defense minister’s remarks come as paratroopers advance in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
’s Khan Younis, killing button men with sniper fire, in close-quarters combat
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Thursday that more than 100 Hamas
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operatives had been captured by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip in recent days, including some who surrendered after hiding in tunnels.
"Hamas is collapsing into its own tunnels that it painstakingly dug. Every place it thought would be a trap for IDF soldiers becomes an area where we hit it," Gallant said to soldiers of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit during a visit to their base in southern Israel.
Gallant said Hamas has "hundreds of casualties underground" as a result of Yahalom’s actions.
"In the past day and a half, we have over 100 captives, some of them who came up from underground, in the Khan Younis area and also in other places, because they realize that they can’t fight against the IDF," he said.
According to the IDF, the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 has interrogated some 2,300 Paleostinian suspects in the Gaza Strip, many of whom, suspected terror operatives, have been arrested and brought to Israel for further questioning.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat......
fighting intensified in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, amid a major offensive led by the 98th Division against Hamas in the Khan Younis area.
In their biggest operation in a month, Israeli tanks pushed through Khan Younis, where many Paleostinians sheltered after leaving the north — the early focus of the war. Large numbers of Paleostinians have now moved further south to Rafah, per Israeli instructions.
On Thursday afternoon, the IDF said soldiers of the division’s Paratroopers Brigade further expanded their activities in Khan Younis, releasing new footage showing Hamas operatives being killed by sniper fire and in close-quarters encounters.
The Paratroopers Brigade is operating in the Khan Younis neighborhood of al-Amal, where they have encountered numerous Hamas button men, raided the terror group’s sites, and seized and destroyed weapons, the IDF said.
The IDF said the soldiers located a large cache of firearms, grenades, bombs to be dropped from drones, and mortars during a raid on a Hamas site in the area.
In another raid, three Hamas button men shot up the troops. The IDF said the paratroopers returned fire, killing two of the operatives, while the third fled into a building.
Footage released by the IDF showed a drone sent by the brigade into the building to scan for the third gunman. The clip showed the gunman opening fire at the drone, before it cut to showing him dead after troops opened fire on him.
The IDF also released footage showing snipers of the Paratroopers Brigade killing Hamas operatives in the Khan Younis area. It said the snipers have killed dozens of Hamas button men so far. 
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