...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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
’s Beit Hanoun.
The battalion, made up of ultra-Orthodox and religious troops, was placed under the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade for the operation.
It is the first time the unit, normally deployed to the West Bank, is operating in Gaza.
According to the IDF, the soldiers located and destroyed Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...anti-tank missile launching positions, observation posts, and tunnel shafts, and killed several button men in Beit Hanoun.
In December, the IDF said it had completed dismantling Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion, but was continuing to battle smaller cells in the area.