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Israeli soldiers encountered a Hamas terror cell within a school in the Gaza Strip before eliminating them, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday.
The Hamas fighters attempted to draw IDF forces from a counter-terrorism unit with the 74th Battalion into an ambush before a firefight erupted, the IDF said.
The soldiers searched the school in the Shuja'iyya area of Gaza City and found a tunnel shaft inside a classroom, the IDF said.
“This is another example of Hamas’s cynical abuse of schools, they have turned places that should be safe-havens for children into hideouts for terrorists,” the IDF said.
A squad from the Lotar counter-terrorism unit was operating in Gaza for the first time as part of the 188th Brigade, authorities said.
The soldiers in the squad specialize in breaching and demolitions, as well as snipers. Video footage released by the IDF show soldiers firing multiple rounds at a wall where returning gunfire appears to be coming from during close-quarters combat operations.
There were no reports of injuries to the Israeli soldiers.
Posted by Louis Casiano